Author: Polyaenus 2nd century AD (Pancratius Maasvicius 1658-1719, Justus Vultejus 1523-1575, Casaubon Isaac 1559-1614)
Title: STRATEGEMATUM libri octo Justo Vultejo interprete. Pancratius Maasvicius recensuit, Isaaci Casauboni, nec non suas notas adjecit.
Description: Leiden, Jordani Lugtmans & Joann du Justo Vultejo interprete. Pancratius Maasvicius recensuit, Isaaci Casauboni, nec non suas, notas adjecitivie 1691 copperplate engraved pictorial title woodcut printer's mark & a few decirated small initials . Octavo modern taupe boards with printed spine label [lower corner very sl.bumped] All edges rouge [12p=extra engr.title + title +dedication +To reader etc] + 832pp + [40pp=index] In Ancient Greek & Latin parallel columns throughout. Work divided into 8 books. First four words of title translated from the Ancient Greek. Recent pages added after endpage and before frontispeice 3 on each side. Five page dedication at beginning mentioning the likley transcriber of this edition Pancratius Maasvicius. Maasvicius is also credited on titlepage alongside Vultejus and Casaubon. Vultejus transcribed the 1549 Basel edition of the work, whilst Casaubon the 1589 Lyon version. Overall very clean and tight. *A manual of strategy and war taken from the most ancient histories down to his own time. These are sources many of which have since been lost making this an important original source. Polyaenus drew on the Roman-Parthian Wars of the mid 2nd century AD, dedicating the work to Marcus Aurelius and his co-emperor Lucius Verus who were engaged in the conflict. This is the 2nd edition of the Greco-Latin work, the first published in Lyon in 1589. The first latin editon was published in Basel in 1549. "One of the rarer editions in the "Cum notis variorum" series" Ebert 17681.

Keywords: War strategy generalship


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