Iusti Lipsi Poliorceticon Siue de Machinis. Tormentis. Telis. Libri Quinque.
Ad Historiarum lucem.
Leipzig: Officina Plantiniana, presso Vidia e Giovanni Moreto, 1596.
by Justus Lipsius, Petrus van der Borcht
First edition of this fascinating study on the war machines of ancient Rome by Giusto Lipsio,
Flemish philosopher and philologist with great passion for classical culture.
The work, printed in Greek and Latin is enriched with numerous engraved illustrations.
4to: 7 1/2 by 10 1/3" (260 x 175mm)
267 pp plus Index
Printer's device on title and colophon, engraved initials, many engraved illustrations, some full-page (two erased stamps on title, bottom margin of final leaf restored not touching text, X3 rimargined with small loss of a few letters which have been replaced in manuscript, browned throughout, some spotting).
Later (18th-century?) binding with vellum spine and manuscript title
Provenance:
- Borghese (bookplate)
- Emanuele Dolleri (bookplate).
Text in Latin with some Greek

Justus Lipsius (Joest Lips or Joost Lips; 1547 – 1606) was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity.
The most famous of these is De Constantia (On Constancy).
His form of Stoicism influenced a number of contemporary thinkers, creating the intellectual movement of Neostoicism. He taught at the universities in Jena, Leiden, and Leuven.




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