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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.

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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<\sup>, 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).

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