Scriptores rei militaris, Paris, 1553, contemporary blind-tooled calf

[Scriptores rei militaris]

Vegetius: De re militari libri quatuor. Frontinus: De strategematis libri totidem. Aelianus: De instruendis aciebus. Modestus: De vocabulis rei militaris. Item picturae bellicae cxx passim Vegetio adiectae. Collata sunt omnia ad antiquos codices, maxime Budaei, quod testabitur Aelianus. Paris: Christian Wechel, 1553

folio (311 x 200mm.), woodcut printer's device on title-page and final verso, woodcut initials, woodcut illustrations (mostly full-page), contemporary calf with blind-tooled borders and central panel with corner gilt fleurons, small rust-hole in A3, occasional light foxing, binding rebacked and repaired

A reprint of Wechel's 1532 edition of these classical military writings.

LITERATURE:

USTC 151261; cf. Mortimer, Harvard French 486 (1532 Wechel edition)