QUINTE-CURCE

New edition annotated by Samuel Pitiscus with third edition statement, and illustrated with a frontispiece title, a portrait of Pitiscus, 4 folding maps and 11 plates with 29 numbered figures (most of them folding) often quite curious (the gardens of Babylon) by Johan van den Avelen after G. Hoet. The first edition appears to have been published in 1684.
Contemporary brown half sheep binding with corners. Spine with raised bands decorated with 5 fleurons. Brown morocco title-label. Marbled edges. Overall rubbed, with paper lacking to boards. Outer edges worn and corners slightly bumped.
Abundantly annotated edition by Pitiscus, including Freinshemius's supplement, and a comprehensi

The editions of Quintus Curtius on the life of Alexander were numerous in the 16th century. We have been unable to determine whether this was a first edition from Jean Frellon, although we have not found any earlier edition from this publisher (notably in the Aurelianensis catalogue of 16th-century Lyon editions) present only in the Edinburgh catalogue.
Fine printing in Italic Minuscules. The last leaf bears the printer's mark with the scorpion of Michaël Sylvius typographus. Two old manuscript leaves at the end of the work on Alfonso king of Naples, and the Alexander of Quintus Curtius.
The last unpaginated part bears as its header: Alexandri magni epistola, de situ India [...] ad

De rebus gestis Alexandri magni regis Macedonum The very rare first edition of Quintus Curtius Rufus' History of Alexander the Great, edited by Bartolomeo Merula who corrected (without altering the main body of the text) the errors in the editio princeps by Vindelin de Spire (1470 or 1471). A second edition appeared in 1496 with the same pagination. The History of Alexander the Great makes up books III to IX of the complete works of Curtius Rufus.
An attractive edition by Giovanni Tacuino with 46 lines to t