Renatus Flavius VEGETIUS [VÉGÈCE]
De re militari libri quatuor. Post omnes omnium editiones, ope veterum librorum correcti, a Godescalco Stewechio Heusdano. Accesserunt Sex. Iuli Frontini Strategemato in libri quatuor: Ælianus De instruendis aciebus: Modestus De vocabulis rei militaris: Castrametatio Romanorum ex historiis Polybii. Accessit seorsum eiusdem G. Stewechi in Fl. Vegetium Commentarius. Adiuncta eiusdem G. Stewechi & Francisci Modi, in Iul. Frontinum coniectanea, & notae
Ex officina Plantiniana • apud Franciscum Raphelengium|Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] • (Leyde) [Leiden] 1592|12 x 17 cm|relié
Second Plantin edition with Steewech's commentaries, after that of 1585. A printer's device on both title pages. Fine and esteemed edition.
Illustrated with 51 woodcuts in and outside the text (military machines, military manoeuvres...) and with a folding plate showing the organization of a Roman camp.
The commentaries by Stewachius (1557-1588) have a particular title page: Godescalci Stewechii Commentarius ad Flavi Vegeti Renati, De re militari libros. Accesserunt eiusdem G. Stewechii & Francisci Modii... The text of Polybius (book VI of his History) was translated into Latin by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). The military dictionary Modesti libellus De
Illustrated with 51 woodcuts in and outside the text (military machines, military manoeuvres...) and with a folding plate showing the organization of a Roman camp.
The commentaries by Stewachius (1557-1588) have a particular title page: Godescalci Stewechii Commentarius ad Flavi Vegeti Renati, De re militari libros. Accesserunt eiusdem G. Stewechii & Francisci Modii... The text of Polybius (book VI of his History) was translated into Latin by Janus Lascaris (1445-1535). The military dictionary Modesti libellus De
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