VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius. De re militari libri quatuor . Edited by Guillaume Budé. Paris: Christian Wechel, 23 August 1532. 2° (317 x 22mm). Woodcut title vignette and woodcut illustration on verso, full-page woodcut frontispiece, with ?17th-century hand-colouring and gold heightening, 120 full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut text illustrations, diagrams, initials, and publisher's device on Z8v, letterpress diagrams of formations. (Slight oxidisation to frontispiece colouring, occasional light spotting or marking, first 3 leaves skilfully repaired at inner margin.) Late 17th- or early 18th-century panelled speckled calf gilt, spine in compartments with 2 gilt lettering-pieces and the crowned monogram label [SX] of the Earl of Essex (lightly rubbed and scuffed, recornered and rebacked retaining early backstrip, chipped with minor loss). Provenance : Algernon Capell, second Earl of Essex of the second creation (bookplate dated '1701', monogram lettering-piece). THE EARL OF ESSEX'S COPY OF THE FIRST WECHEL EDITION. This edition combines Vegetius's famous text with Sextus Iulius Frontinus' De strategematis , Aelianus Tacticus' De instruendis aciebus and Publius Franciscus Modestus' De vocabulis rei militaris . The 1532 edition appears to be unknown to Brunet, who cites Wechel's second edition of 1534, finding that edition notable for 'le nom de son éditeur, le savant Budée, et [...] les gravures sur bois, dont elle est ornée'. Adams V-331; Mortimer, Harvard French 486: cf. Brunet V, col.1162 (second and third Wechel editions, 1534 and 1535); Davies Murray French 563 (third Wechel edition, 1535).
VEGETIUS RENATUS, Flavius. De re militari libri quatuor . Edited by Guillaume Budé. Paris: Christian Wechel, 23 August 1532. 2° (317 x 22mm). Woodcut title vignette and woodcut illustration on verso, full-page woodcut frontispiece, with ?17th-century hand-colouring and gold heightening, 120 full-page woodcut illustrations, woodcut text illustrations, diagrams, initials, and publisher's device on Z8v, letterpress diagrams of formations. (Slight oxidisation to frontispiece colouring, occasional light spotting or marking, first 3 leaves skilfully repaired at inner margin.) Late 17th- or early 18th-century panelled speckled calf gilt, spine in compartments with 2 gilt lettering-pieces and the crowned monogram label [SX] of the Earl of Essex (lightly rubbed and scuffed, recornered and rebacked retaining early backstrip, chipped with minor loss). Provenance : Algernon Capell, second Earl of Essex of the second creation (bookplate dated '1701', monogram lettering-piece). THE EARL OF ESSEX'S COPY OF THE FIRST WECHEL EDITION. This edition combines Vegetius's famous text with Sextus Iulius Frontinus' De strategematis , Aelianus Tacticus' De instruendis aciebus and Publius Franciscus Modestus' De vocabulis rei militaris . The 1532 edition appears to be unknown to Brunet, who cites Wechel's second edition of 1534, finding that edition notable for 'le nom de son éditeur, le savant Budée, et [...] les gravures sur bois, dont elle est ornée'. Adams V-331; Mortimer, Harvard French 486: cf. Brunet V, col.1162 (second and third Wechel editions, 1534 and 1535); Davies Murray French 563 (third Wechel edition, 1535).
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