Historiarum libri - Curtius Rufus, Quintus 1st century AD (Leiden Elsevier, 1633)
Rare and attractive early 17th-century edition of Histories of Alexander the Great (Latin: Historiae Alexandri Magni) -- a biography of Alexander the Great written by Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, dating to the 1st century. More fully title is Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon".
Including a nice engraved title page, a woodcut portrait of Alexander the Great, and abeautiful folding map of his conquests.
Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon." Much of it is missing. Apart from his name on the manuscripts, nothing else certain is known of him. This fact alone has led philologists to believe that he had another historical identity, to which, due to the accidents of time, the link has been broken. A few theories exist. They are treated with varying degrees of credibility by various authors. Meanwhile, the identity of Quintus Curtius Rufus, historian, is maintained separately.
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Keywords: Alexander the Great -- 356 BC-323 BC; Classical Antiquity (8th Century BC-6th Century AD); 17th Century (1601-1700); History; Biography