ΑΙΝΕΙΟΥ: ΤΑΚΤΙΚΟΝ ΚΑΙ ΠΟΛΙΟΡΚΗΤΙΚΟΝ ΥΠΟΜΝΗΜΑ, together at head: ΠΟΛΥΒΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΛΥΚΟΡΤΑ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΠΟΛΙΤΟΥ: ΙΣΤΟΡΙΩΝ ΤΑ ΣΩΖΟΜΕΝΑ, POLYBII LYCORTAE: HISTORIARUM LIBRI, AENEAE: TACTICI COMMENTARIUM. PARIS 1609 Editio PRINCEPS of Aeneas Tactica,on the defense of fortified positions,an Ancient Greek manual on siege warfare and first critical edition of the famous Polybius History. Royal FOLIO,contemporary full leather with very few wear,text in Greek with parallel Latin translation,text clean and bright.complete,a massive book of more than 1.000 pages in very good condition. A landmark of early 17th-century classical scholarship. Published in Paris, it was edited by the great French humanist Isaac Casaubon.It is widely considered the first "modern" critical edition of Polybius and remained the scholarly standard for nearly two centuries. Casaubon provided a brand-new Latin translation that was so accurate and elegant it was hailed as a masterpiece in its own right. It replaced older, less reliable versions and made Polybius’s complex political theories accessible to European statesmen. Casaubon utilized several new manuscripts to correct the Greek text, which had been significantly corrupted in earlier printings,like in the 1530 Haguenau edition.This volume is also notable for containing the editio princeps of Aeneas Tacticus, on the Defense of Fortified Positions, an ancient Greek manual on siege warfare.