Polyaeni Strategematum Libri Octo
Leiden: Leiden, 1690.
Beautiful engraved frontispiece plus engaved vignette on title page. [20] + 832pp. plus index [40], thick 8vo, full re-backed vellum with leather spine label; minor scuffing to spine, small bookplate inside front cover. Lugduni Batavorum, 1690. Clean, tight, and bright, a near fine copy.
Text in parallel columns of Latin and Greek. Polyaenus was a 2nd century Macedonian who wrote on military strategems of ancient generals.
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Near Fine
Language: latin, greek
Price: $500.00
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