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De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni: cum supplementis Freinshemii, interpretatione et notis illustravit Michael Le Tellier è Societate Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini.

De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni: cum supplementis Freinshemii, interpretatione et notis illustravit Michael Le Tellier è Societate Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini.

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De rebus gestis Alexandri Magni: cum supplementis Freinshemii, interpretatione et notis illustravit Michael Le Tellier è Societate Jesu. Jussu Christianissimi Regis, in usum serenissimi Delphini.

by Curtius Rufus, Quintus (Freinsheim, Johann; Letellier, M., eds.)

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Parisiis [Paris]: apud Fredericum Leonard [...], 1678. First edition thus. 4to., pp. [xxxvi] 417 [cxxxv]. Additional engraved title-page, winged lion device to title, engraved end pieces and initials. Occasional light dampstaining particularly near bottom edge and top corner towards the rear, some very light spotting, leaf V1 tip of bottom corner lost not affecting text. Contemporary semi-limp vellum, later dark green morocco label to spine, date inked at tail, blind panelled boards. Vellum slightly yellowed with some smudgy marks, corners a little bumped, small hole to ffep. Armorial bookplate of Charles Vere Dashwood Esq. (1745-1821). The tenth 'Delphin' edition issued (a classical library for Louis XIV's son, the Dauphin). This history of Alexander the Great is the only known work of the (probably) first-century historian Quintus Curtius Rufus. Schweiger II 321.

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