[Literature] Edmonds, Clement. The Commentaries of C. Julius Caesar...

London: Printed by R(oger). Daniel, and are to be sold by Henry Twyford, Nathaniel Ekins, and John Place, 1655. Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged (fourth edition). Folio. (xliv), 196, (2), 142, 10 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece portrait of Caesar, additional engraved title-page, and 14 engraved plates (including nine double-page), as well as woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Full contemporary or near-contemporary English blue morocco, elaborately decorated in gilt, wear along joints, boards lightly rubbed, small repaired holes at fore-edges from now perished clasps or ties; all edges gilt; later marbled endpapers; light scattered spotting to text. From the family libraries of Americana collectors and bibliophiles, Amor L. and Zachary T. Hollingsworth. ESTC R17666; Wing C-199

A handsome copy in a contemporary English binding of Clement Edmonds' translation of Caesar's Commentaries, featuring fine engraved plates of battlefield plans, maneuvers, and other scenes.

This lot is located in Philadelphia.