Los quatro libros… de los enxemplos, consejos y avisos dela guerra (Strategemata).

Sextus Julius FRONTINUS (Author)

Diego GUILLÉN DE ÁVILA (Translator)

Lorenzo de Liondedei (Printer)

Origin: Salamanca, XVI c.
Biblioteca Nacional de España.

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R/31603
Facsimile. Old Books. Collection of Incunabula and Old Books.
84-923358-9-0
978-84-923358-9-3
4º
14,5 x 21,5 cm.
59+3 crd.
118+6 crd.
Spanish.
1st February 1515.
3rd December 2002.
3000+80+50+30
Parchment on wooden board.
Military literature.
Presentation dust jacket cloth lined with gold engraved leather spine containing facsimile.
Numbered by notary and signed by the printer-publisher.
Specially made laid paper.
Optional: Study in Spanish: author yet to be determined. Included in Bibliofilia Antigua IX.
One font size Gothic script. Apostille (notes) in the margins. Xylographic royal shield on the title page , framed by xylographic parts. Engraved initials.

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Synopsis:

Sextus Julius Frontinus, from Rome, a well known military person as well as an engineer, “consular man”, as called by this work's translator, author of texts about the problem of waters in Rome and about surveying, he was also the author of a well known piece of work, Strategemata or Strategematicon (sic in the prologue, a translator's inscription, Diego Guillén de Ávila, addressed to Pedro de Velasco, Count of Haro), where “he puts many remedies and tricks into action for all the war events”, in fact a list of very well chosen war anecdotes.

The “Authorities” and characters served as examples, the advices and the warnings are offered as side apostilles.

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