[Greece - Macedonia]. - Lot 17

[Greece - Macedonia]. RADER, Matthäus. QUINTE-CURCE or Quintus Curtius Rufus. Matthaei Raderi e Societate Iesu ad Q Curtii Rufi de Alexandro Magno historiam, prolusiones, librorum synopses, capitum argumenta, commentarii. Cum indice duplici, capitum & argumentorum, itemque rerum memorabilium copiosissimo. Coloniae Agrippinae (Cologne), apud Ioannem Kinckium, 1628. In-folio. (86)-683-(13) pp. with title in red and black, 3 plates. Contemporary ivory vellum over boards, smooth spine, handwritten title on spine (soiling to vellum, browning and foxing sometimes very heavy, heavy wetness at end of work). First edition of Rader's famous translation. A German philologist and historian, the Jesuit Matthäus Rader (1561-1634) is considered the most important representative of late humanism in Upper Germany. Historian, historiographer, hagiographer and philologist, he edited and commented on classical and Byzantine texts. Published in 1628, his annotated Latin version of Alexander the Great's expedition to Asia by Quintus Curtius Rufus was the subject of numerous reprints, translations and commentaries. Matthäus Rader was one of the most widely read Latin historians of the modern era. The illustration consists of three black etchings, two of which are fold-outs, and a map showing the empire of Macedonia as ruled by Alexander the Great. Illustrated with woodcut figures in the text and decorative lettering. With a description of the Tower of Babylon (pp. 268). Large black woodcut typographical mark to title, a unicorn with monogrammed shield. Cambrai Library stamps on title page and last page, removed with "Double".