Accession number:
PML 1693
Published:
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden, Netherlands] : Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1635.
Description:
[22], 561, [70] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill., maps, port. ; 13 cm.
Notes:
"De bello africano" and "De bello hispaniensi" are no longer attributed to Hirtius, although he may have edited the former; "De bello alexandrino" is also attributed to C. Oppius. cf. Oxford classical dictionary.
The first edition of 1635, distinguished by the buffalo's head in the headpieces of the dedicatory epistle and on p. 1, and by the numbering of pages 149, 335, and 475 which are incorrectly numbered 153, 345, 375. cf. Willems. Les Elzevier, no. 420.
Engr'd maps following f. 4; 5 full-page woodcuts on prel. ff.
Binding:
Red morocco, by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
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