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A wonderful opportunity to acquire a post-incunabulum book (1501-1535) with woodcuts for under $1000!M. Annei Lucani Cordubensis Pharsalia diligentissime per G. Versallanu(m) recognita. Cum commentariis.
Ioannis Sulpitij Verulani eruditionis bonae plenis. Mediolani Impressum Angelu(m) Scinenzler, MDXXV. Loosely translates: Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (aka Lucan) The Battle of Pharsalia or Pharsalus diligently revised by G. Versallanum. With commentaries by Johannes Sulpitius of Verula, a renowned scholar. Printed in Milan by Angelo Scinenzler, 1525. Woodcut portrait of Lucan (presumably) with the title, surrounded by smaller woodcuts on the title page. In addition, about a dozen in-text woodcuts throughout the book.A 1525 post-incunabulum (aka incunable) book of Lucan's Pharsalia, a Latin epic poem on the Civil Wars between Julius Caesar and the Roman Senate led by Pompey the Great. The climax of the poem is the Battle of Pharsalus (48 BCE) in Central Greece. Includes about a dozen (give or take) in-text… Read More