Curtii Rufi Alexander Magnus Illum by Curtius Rufus Quintus Pitiscus Samuel (2 results)

hardcover. Condition: very good(+). Second. Extra-engraved title page and 13 other fine copperplates, 7 folding, including 1 map. [46], 785, [164] pages. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. Very thick 8vo, full contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine; hinges cracked but still sound. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Apud Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second edition. A very good(+) copy with clean plates. A good, annotated edition of De Rebus gesti Alexandri Magni, a biography of Alexander the Great, by the first century A.D. Roman rhetorician. This is one of the primary sources on the Macedonian king's life. Brunet II 449.

Vellum. Second edition. pp. 785 + Index. Thick 8vo. Full vellum, with hand-lettering to spine. With 14 copper plate engravings, including illustrated title page, 7 folding illustrations, one being a map. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown (P. Small Keir Esq). Text unmarked, binding and joints sound. Lovely condition. The second edition, being more ornate and compact than the first. A biography of Alexander the Great, written originally in the first century or thereabouts, in ten books; later pieced together therefrom and printed in many editions as early as the ninth century.