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1666 HISTORY Of ALEXANDER THE GREAT antique by Curtius Rufus

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1666 HISTORY Of ALEXANDER THE GREAT antique by Curtius Rufus

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Curtius Rufus, Q.
Historiarum Libri de vita et expeditione Alexandri Magni
Utrecht, G. Zylius, 1666
(12),449,(18)p.
Engraved title, 1 plate, original boards
Size 3 by 6"
One leaf with repaired tear. Lacks backstrip; covers worn.
Text in Latin

Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon."

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