TACTICA SIVE DE INSTRUENDIS ACIEBUS; GRAECE ET LATINE. Cum Notis & Animaduersionibus Sixti Arcerii. Accedunt praeliorum aliquot descriptiones, & nonnulla alia: additis Tabulis Aeneis.
[Parallet text in Latin and Greek]. Pp. [viii]+214 (with occasional mispagination), printer's device on title page, 3 folding engraved plates, several text figures (mainly typographic), decorative head & tailpieces and initials; f'cap 4to; nineteenth century navy half morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, marbled papered boards, edges slightly rubbed, a couple of tiny surface grazes to lower board; a.e.g.; marbled endpapers, binder's stamp in gilt and book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, early inked signature at head of title page, a couple of small marginal wormholes to first few pages, occasional spots of foxing; Ludovicum Elzevirium, Lugdunum, 1613. USTC 1028197; Brunet (Second edition, Volume I), page 14; Rahir (Elzevier) 59. *Bound by Antoine Chatelin for Robert D'Orleans, Duc de Chartres, grandson of the French King Louis-Philippe. After the February Revolution of 1848, Louis-Philippe and his family fled to England, as did the binder, Antoine Chatelin (c. 1820-1890) who established an atelier in London producing work for French aristocratic political exiles. The Duc de Chartres (1840-1910) fought on the side of the Union in the American Civil War. In the 1870 Franco-Prussian War, serving under the pseudonym Robert Le Fort, he served with such distinction that he was awarded the Legion d'honneur. 'Aelian is one of the most renowned and trustworthy of the ancient miliary writers' [Cockle, page 71]. His handbook describes Greek (i.e. Macedonian) tactics and drill as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of Alxander the Great. Item #169782
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