SILIUS ITALICUS'S 1543 EPIC POEM ABOUT THE PACIFIC WARS IS AN OLD PIGSKIN BINDING RARE
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Year/Century: 16th century
Language: Latin
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Binding: Vellum
Description: Italicus Silius. Textus XVIII. bellorum, quae Romani gesserunt contra Poenos. Cum Hermanni Buschii annotationibus. Heinrich Petri, Basel, 1543 665 pages, 3 leaves, 8 leaves. Featuring a woodcut printing apparatus at the title page. 4 by 6" (14.5 x 9.5 cm) in size worn, untied, blind-stamped pigskin binding with the manuscript's publication year on the front cover. -- VD16 S 6480. - 1504 saw the Leipzig publication of the edition authored by Hermann von dem Busche, a humanist who lived from 1468 to 1534. The Punica, an epic about the second Punic War that spans around 12,000 verses and is regarded as the most comprehensive Latin epic that has been preserved for us from antiquity, is the sole composition of the Roman poet Silus Italicus (c. 25–100 AD). former library. with outdated annotations. Latin text.
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SILIUS ITALICUS'S 1543 EPIC POEM ABOUT THE PACIFIC WARS IS AN OLD PIGSKIN BINDING RARE
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