The Tactiks Of Aelian Or Art Of Embattailing An Army After Ye Grecian Manner Englished And

by Aelianus

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First edition · Signed

First Edition in English, In this Earliest state the contents begin on p. 5. Engraved title, 50 engraved plates. Title shaved at upper margin with a little loss. . The title page is engraved and signed: Egidius Gelius sculpsit A 1616 Woudrichemij in Hollandia. with repair 6 , 7, 1 , 7-159, 9 p. Folio. Contemporary speckled calf, tooled and blocked in gilt. Provenance: Walter Steuart early inscriptions . ESTC S106791; STC 2nd ed. , 161.

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