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LUCAN (MARCUS ANNÆUS LUCANUS):
DE BELLO CIVILI.
Amsterdam: apud Franciscum Hackium 1658. A handsome and scholarly edition of Lucan's high-flown epic poem on the civil war between Caeasar and Pompey better known as The Pharsalia. With the notes and selected variorum of Hugo Grotius, edited by Cornelius Schrevelius. Also includes the "Specimen Belli Civilis" of Petronius Arbiter and the much-admired 1630 continuation of the Pharsalia down to the death of Caesar by the English poet Thomas May (1595-1650). Crown 8vo. [xvi],614,[cxlvi]pp. Engraved title. Folding map. Contemporary vellum; some minor marks, some slight browning and spotting, but a very good copy.
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- ordernr.: 13001
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