CURTIUS, (Quintus Curtius Rufus)

De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, Regis macedonum, Libri Superstites...

Delft & Leiden A. Beman and S. Luchtmans 1724, Prefaces, 824 p. + index. 26 cm. Engraved t.p. loose& frayed at edges, 15 plates (p. 1, 2, 3, 6, 52, 57, 166, 214, 217, 230, 327, 335, 486, 626, folding plate p. 741), folding map p. 1. Hardcover. Full leather in poor condition, covers loose. 'Withdrawn' stamp on t.p., lib. pockets sticker inside back cover & on rear endpaper, bookplates inside ft. cover, owner's sig. top of various pages (257, 477, 683, 723), a few pages soiled at edge, foxing, signs of dampstaing in prefaces, bottom corner torn p. 354, sm. hole bottom corner p. 729. Curtius Rufus, Quintus, is known as the biographer of Alexander the Great. Modern authorities regard him as a rhetorician who flourished during the reign of Claudius (A.D. 41-54). His work (De Rebus gestis Alexandri Magni) originally consisted of ten books, of which the first two are entirely lost, and the remaining eight are incomplete. Although the work is uncritical, and shows the author's ignorance of geography, chronology and military matters, it is written in a picturesque style. (Encyc. Brit.).

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