Description:
Lipsius, Justus De Militia Romana, [and] Analecta sive Observationes Relique ad Militiam et Hosce. Antwerp: Plantin, 1598.
Quarto, illustrated with four full-page, three text engravings, and one folding plate in the first work, and four text engravings in the second, text woodcuts in both, in contemporary limp parchment, somewhat tattered at the fore edges, ink stains to fore edge of text, nice calligraphic title to spine, text evenly toned, with some more intense occasional foxing, contemporary ex libris on ffep, 10 x 7 in.
Estimate $400-600
A-Z4, a-z4; AA-CC4, DD6.
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