Beschreibung:

VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius (379-395). De re militari libri quatuor . - Sextus Julius FRONTINUS (30-ca.104). De strategematis . - AELIANUS Tacticus (fl. 2nd century). De instruendis aciebus . Translated from Greek into Latin by Theodorus Thessalonicensis. - MODESTUS (pseudo-). De vocabulis rei militaris . Edited by Guillaume Budé (1467-1560). Paris: Chrétien Wechel, 1553. 2 o (321 x 203 mm). Roman type. 120 woodcut illustrations of military devices, all but 3 full-page, including a cut of a lansquenet designated as the author (repeated on a4v and Q1v); typographic diagrams of troop formations in the Aelianus. Woodcut initials, Wechel's woodcut Pegasus device on title and at end. (Some mainly marginal dampstaining, marginal worm trail in last few leaves.) Contemporary French blind-tooled calf, sides panelled with central blocked oval arabesque cartouche, small fleur-de-ly tools at corners of inner panel, evidence of two fore-edge ties (small tears to spine, lacking ties); folding cloth chemise and slipcase. Fifth Wechel edition, the fourth illustrated, of the Scriptores rei militaris . The De vocabulis rei militaris , spuriously attributed to Modestus, is an epitome of Vegetius by Pomponius Laetus or one of his pupils. The woodcuts, copied from the cuts used in Heinrich Steiner's 1529 Augsburg edition and first used by Wechel in 1532, show machines of war, some fantastical, others premonitory. This copy has the correct cut of a diver on l6r (in some copies the cut on l5v is incorrectly repeated). Adams V-334; Brunet V, 1162; cf. Harvard/Mortimer French 486-487 and Fairfax Murray French 563.