Caesar (Caius Julius) Quæ extant. Accuratissimè cum libris editis & MSS optimis collata, recognita & correcta, edited by Samuel Clarke, additional engraved title by C. Huyberts after R. V. Audenaerde, engraved portrait of the dedicatee, John Duke of Marlborough, by G. Vertue after G. Kneller, and engraved portrait of Caesar by J. de Leeuw, 84 engraved plates and maps, most double-page or folding, engraved head-and tail-pieces and historiated initials, very slight mottling and toning affecting a few leaves, occasional offseting, but overall an excellent, crisp, clean copy of this most sumptuous classical work, complete with the double-page plate of the bison, usually lacking, contemporary diced tan calf with greek key-pattern border, rebacked and recornered by Flora Ginn, preserving original gilt spine, black lettering piece, marbled endpapers, folio, Jacob Tonson, 1712.*** “This is the magnificent and celebrated edition of Dr. Samuel Clarke. It is perhaps the most sumptuous classical volume which this country ever produced, and has long been the admiration of bibliographers...The type of this magnificent volume is truly beautiful and splendid." (Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, I, pp. 361-363).Provenance: Joseph Nouvellet [1841-1904] (small armorial bookplate); bookseller's ticket of A. Durand, Paris.