I commentari di C. Giulio Cesare, con le figure in rame de gli alloggiamenti, de' fatti d'arme, delle circonuallationi delle città, & di molte altre cose notabili descritte in essi. Fatta da Andrea Palladio per facilitare a chi legge, la cognition dell'historia.
Gaius Julius Caesar (100/102 BCE - 44 BCE)
Category
Books
Date
1575
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3049044
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 407, [1] p., [73] leaves of plates (34 double leaves, 5 folded leaves) : ill., maps ; 4to. Running number: 5042. Provenance: manuscript inscription on fly-leaf facing title page: "Cesare" [i.e. title note and catalogue entry by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript codes on title page. With manuscript marginal annotations in the preface and index. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; double and single gilt fillet border, with small cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown goatskin label. Red burnished edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Gaius Julius Caesar (100/102 BCE - 44 BCE) Francesco Baldelli (fl. 16th century) Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), editor