VEGETIUS, Flavius. De re militari. - FRONTINUS, Sextus Julius. Stratagematicon. - MODESTUS. De vocabulis rei militaris. - AELIANUS TACTICUS. De instruendis aciebus. Translated by Theodorus Gaza. Rome: Eucharius Silber, 24 October-3 November 1494.
VEGETIUS, Flavius. De re militari. - FRONTINUS, Sextus Julius. Stratagematicon. - MODESTUS. De vocabulis rei militaris. - AELIANUS TACTICUS. De instruendis aciebus. Translated by Theodorus Gaza. Rome: Eucharius Silber, 24 October-3 November 1494.

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VEGETIUS, Flavius. De re militari. - FRONTINUS, Sextus Julius. Stratagematicon. - MODESTUS. De vocabulis rei militaris. - AELIANUS TACTICUS. De instruendis aciebus. Translated by Theodorus Gaza. Rome: Eucharius Silber, 24 October-3 November 1494.

4o (209 x 155 mm). Collation: a-p4 q6 r-x4 y2 (lacks A-D4 Onosander). 40 lines and headline. Type: 10:81R. Woodcut capitals, initial spaces with printed guide-letters. 16th-century brown morocco elaborately gilt, central arabesque framed by fillets in gilt and blind in triangular design, small angel tools, within a wide gilt arabesque border (rebacked, some repairs to edges).

FIRST EDITION of this collection edited by Joannes Sulpitius, lacking the last tract. Silber had previously printed editions of Vegetius, Frontinus, Aelianus and Modestus in 1487, which were available either together or individually. HC *15915; BMC IV:116; Goff S-344; IGI 8851; IDL 4069; CIBN S-172.

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