Quinti Curtii Rufi de rebus gestis Alexandri Magni, regis Macedonum, libri superstites. : Cum omnibus supplementis, variantibus lectionibus, commentariis ac notis perpetuis Fr. Modii, V. Acidalii, ... Nic. Heinsii. Selectis & excerptis Ph. Ribenii, ... / Curavit & digessit Henricus Snakenburg.
Quintus Curtius Rufus (d.c.53AD)
Category
Books
Date
1724
Materials
Place of origin
Delft
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3030495
Summary
Bibliographic description
[74], 472, [2], 473-824, [224] p., frontis., [16] leaves of plates (3 folding) : ill., map ; 4to. Contains 19 leaves of plates. Plate supposed to be opposite p. 486 misbound opposite p. 476. Pencil price on flyleaf in an eighteenth-century hand: -15- Provenance: Armorial bookplate (between 1733 and 1754): Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [i.e. Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764), created Baron Hardwicke, 1733, and Earl of Hardwicke, 1754]. Binding: Eighteenth-century sprinkled calf over boards; gilt spine tooling; brown spine label; remains of gilt roll on board edges; red sprinkled edges. Spine title: Q. Curtius Not Var. Traces of blue paint on textblock at bottom fore-edge.
Makers and roles
Quintus Curtius Rufus (d.c.53AD), author Snakenburg, Hendrik, editor