VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius (fl. second half of the fourth century A.D.). De re militari libri quatuor, edited by Godescalcius Stewechius. Antwerp: Christophorus Plantinus, 1585. 4° (211 x 150mm). Engraved portait of the editor on *1v, woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, folding diagram, with the final privilege/errata leaf. (Many quires browned.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: Compagnia del Gesú (book label and stamp on title). Adams V-336.
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.). Ethicor[um] lib.X cu[m] Auerr ... co[m]e[tariis] ... Politicor[um] lib II. Leonardo aretino i[n]terp[rete]. Pavia: Jacobus [de Burgofranco] Paucodrapius, 20 August 1521. 8° (166 x 109mm.) Title in red within a decorative border, 2 small woodcut devices at end, ornamental initials. (Small wormhole from 4L1 to the end, occasional light discolouration.) Contemporary Northern Italian blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (lacks spine, lower cover defective at outer margin, worn). Provenance: B. Fonghetti (ownership inscription on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label); and Felice Figliucci's De la politica ouero scienza ciuile (Venice, 1583).
VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius (fl. second half of the fourth century A.D.). De re militari libri quatuor, edited by Godescalcius Stewechius. Antwerp: Christophorus Plantinus, 1585. 4° (211 x 150mm). Engraved portait of the editor on *1v, woodcut device on title and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text, folding diagram, with the final privilege/errata leaf. (Many quires browned.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: Compagnia del Gesú (book label and stamp on title). Adams V-336.
ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.). Ethicor[um] lib.X cu[m] Auerr ... co[m]e[tariis] ... Politicor[um] lib II. Leonardo aretino i[n]terp[rete]. Pavia: Jacobus [de Burgofranco] Paucodrapius, 20 August 1521. 8° (166 x 109mm.) Title in red within a decorative border, 2 small woodcut devices at end, ornamental initials. (Small wormhole from 4L1 to the end, occasional light discolouration.) Contemporary Northern Italian blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (lacks spine, lower cover defective at outer margin, worn). Provenance: B. Fonghetti (ownership inscription on title) -- Compagnia del Gesú (book label); and Felice Figliucci's De la politica ouero scienza ciuile (Venice, 1583).