DUNCAN, WILLIAM. The Commentaries of Caesar. London, 1753. First Duncan edition.
The Commentaries of Caesar. London: J. and R. Tonson, 1753.Folio, full paneled calf, custom slipcase, renewed endpapers. First edition. Complete with 86 plates (plates III-IV combined to form one view) including the frontispiece portrait views, plans and maps, including fold-outs and double-page. Light edgewear to boards with hinges slightly tender; minor intermittent foxing; bottom edge of plate 62 is torn at the margin. With the engraved bookplates of Mrs. Charles Brune Henville, and another that states: Fax Copia Sapientia, Fletcher Fleming Rayrigg. Complete with [6],[i]-civ, 335 pp., [20] pages of index.
Property from the Estate of Wilton Jaffee, Chicago, Illinois
