VERY RARE - SCARCE EDITION ORIGINAL VELLUM BINDING RARE EARLY EDITION of a SCARCE WORK ON MILITARY RUSES USED IN WARFARE POLYAENI STRATAGEMA Tum Libri Octo Interprete JUSTO VULTEIO WETTARANO LUBECAE CIVITATE IMPER LIBERA: Typis Laurentii Alberti Bibliopolae. MDCI. 1601. (Published date 1601). RARE EARLY EDITION. 8vo. 8.0" x 6.5" Inches (LxB). Pp. [8], 192 pages. Original contemporary vellum binding (some loss to vellum). Polyaenus of the 2nd century A.D., wrote the Stratagemata, which is a collection of military ruses used in warfare. It was first written in Greek and dedicated to Marcus Aurelius and Verus. "The book, which he calls "a manual of the science of generalship" is illustrated by means of examples taken from the most ancient histories and from those of his own time. His materials were collected from sources many of which are now lost, so that his work is an important one, scanty as the details are." [Cockle] Casaubon, Isaac 1559-1614, classical scholar, was born in 1559 at Geneva... " [He] determined to make England his permanent home, took out letters of naturalisation, called England ‘the isle of the blessed,’ and so far identified himself with us as to speak to an Englishman of ‘our ancestors.’ He made the personal acquaintance of Grotius, who was then in England, and the acquaintance ripened into an enthusiastic friendship; and he found great delight in the society of Thomas Morton, afterwards the famous bishop of Durham." DNB Scaliger called Casaubon "the most learned man in Europe" and considered him as good a Greek scholar as he was himself. A classic work.