BY A GOVERNOR OF ROMAN BRITAIN
FRONTINUS, Sextus Julius.
Sexti Julii Frontini, viri consularis, quae extant. Robertus Keuchenius, S. F. notis et emendationibus illustravit.
Amsterdam, Johann à Waesberge, 1661.
8vo, pp. [32], 416, [16], including an additional engraved emblematic title-page; woodcut device to title-page, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials; some very light foxing at the extremities, else a very good copy in contemporary stiff vellum, later lettering to spine, red edges; armorial bookplate of Rev. Henry Robert Lloyd (1809–1850).
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Sexti Julii Frontini, viri consularis, quae extant. Robertus Keuchenius, S. F. notis et emendationibus illustravit.
The collected works of the first-century civil engineer and Roman general Frontinus, one-time governor of Roman Britain, edited and with extensive notes by the Dutch historian Robert Keuchen (1636–1673).
De Aquaeductu, Frontinus’s best known work, was a history and description of Rome’s water supply written after his appointment as supervisor of aqueducts by Nerva in 97 AD – it was later translated by Herschel. Here it is found alongside the Strategemata, a collection from Greek and Roman military history for the use of generals, which also drew on his own experience under Domitian in Germania; De Agrorum qualitate; and De Coloniis (possibly a spurious attribution).
STCN 094497818; USTC 1843208.
