HISTORY/ANTIQUITY] - Lot 85

HISTORY/ANTIQUITY] LUCAIN / LUCANI (Annaei)] Pharsalia sive de Bello Civili Caesaris et Pompei lib. X. Additæ sunt in fine Hugonis Grottii Notæ Ex binis antehac editis junctæ, auctæ, correctæ et Thomæ Farnabii in margine, etc. Amsterdam, Johannes Blaeu, 1643 One volume in full calf, ribbed spine, gilded decorations in the boxes, red morocco title-piece with: title-frontispiece, (8), 328 pages, (9) Dutch edition of the Pharsalus or Ten Books on Civil War, an unfinished Latin epic, the main work of the Stoic poet Lucanus; with endnotes by Hugo Grotius and marginal notes by Thomas Farnaby. Illustrated with a frontispiece title. Text in Latin. Cover rubbed. Writing scuffed on first pages.