VEGETIUS RENATUS (FLAVIUS)De re militari libri quatuor, full-page woodcut portrait of the author on verso, some repairs to title-page resulting to small loss to printer's device and portrait and touching imprint date (date restored as 1538), small burnhole to 01, 1535; VALTURIUS (ROBERTUS) De re militari libris XII, small repair to fore-edge margin of final 9 leaves, 1534, 2 works bound in 1, both with printer's device on title and final leaf, numerous woodcut illustrations (many full-page), later vellum, old paper lettering label on spine [Adams V332, V226], folio (325 x 210mm.), Paris, Christian WechelFootnotesTwo finely illustrated celebrated military treatises, and the first works to be published by Christian Wechel in France. Provenance: Isaac Massa, ink ownership signature on first title; H.H. Boyd, bookplate.
VEGETIUS RENATUS (FLAVIUS)De re militari libri quatuor, full-page woodcut portrait of the author on verso, some repairs to title-page resulting to small loss to printer's device and portrait and touching imprint date (date restored as 1538), small burnhole to 01, 1535; VALTURIUS (ROBERTUS) De re militari libris XII, small repair to fore-edge margin of final 9 leaves, 1534, 2 works bound in 1, both with printer's device on title and final leaf, numerous woodcut illustrations (many full-page), later vellum, old paper lettering label on spine [Adams V332, V226], folio (325 x 210mm.), Paris, Christian WechelFootnotesTwo finely illustrated celebrated military treatises, and the first works to be published by Christian Wechel in France. Provenance: Isaac Massa, ink ownership signature on first title; H.H. Boyd, bookplate.
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