The first and best Elzevier edition of the three editions published in 1635 of the collected works of Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC), edited by Josephus Justus Scaliger, distinguished by the buffalo's head in the headpieces of the dedicatory epistle and on p. 1 and the pages 149, 335 et 475, misnumbered 153, 345 et 375, containing all Caesars authentic reports of his campaigns in Gaul and during the Civil War. Julius Caesars war commentaries are some of the most prolific military writings of antiquity! It would become a mainstay in the Latin literature canon. They are here continued by reports on Caesar's campaigns in Alexandria, Africa and Spain, which are usually found together with Caesar's own writings, but have most probably not been written by Caesar himself. They are usually attributed to Aulus Hirtius, a legate to Caesar and writer on military subjects who also completed the 8th book of De bello Gallico.
With the owner's inscription of J. Knoop dated 1676 on the title-page. Also with some contemporary scholarly annotations throughout. Vellum a little dust-soiled along the edges, title-page somewhat frayed and a bit soiled, the maps are also slightly soiled, but overall in good condition. Willems 420; Roskam Abbink & P. Tuynman, Petrus Scriverius, A Key ... (2018), BIB 1606A; Schweiger, II, 45.