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1658 Antique Latin Book – Historia Alexandri Magni – Alexander the Great History
Author : Quintus Curtius Rufus; Cornelis Schrevel; Christoph Bruno; Johann Freinsheim; Jean Elzevir
Title : Q. Curtii Rufi Historia Alexandri Magni : cum notis selectiss. variorum, Raderi, Freinshemii, Loccenii, Blancardi, &c.
Text : Text in Latin
Publisher : Lugduni Batavorum : Apud Iohannem Elsevirium …, 1658.
Size : 7 “X 5 ”
Pages : 751 pages
Binding : Very good full calf leather binding (hinges partly cracked but still tight, overall slightly worn and scuffed) under a removable protective mylar cover.
Content : Very good content (bright, tight and clean, rare foxing)
Illustrations : Illustrated “with an engraved title page, folding map, folding plate and some in text illustration.
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The book : “Rare 17th century Latin edition of Historiae Alexandri Magni, — a biography of Alexander the Great.
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The author : “Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, writing probably during the reign of the Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD) or Vespasian. His only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, is a biography of Alexander the Great in Latin in ten books, of which the first two are lost, and the remaining eight are incomplete. His work is fluidly written, and while superficial study reveals the authors errors regarding geography, chronology and technical military knowledge, a detailed study reveals his focusing instead on character and protests against those Emperors of his times whom he considered tyrants. Despite the fact that much of the information we have on this ancient historian is relatively obscure, significant evidence suggests that he suffered one of the earliest known cases of conjunctivitis. Several scholars argue that it was because this went untreated that he succumbed to an early death.
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