Silius Italicus. Libri XVIII.
bellorum, quae Romani adversus Poenos gesserunt. Cum annotationibus Hermanni Buschii.

Basel, Heinrich Petri, 1543

8 leaves, 665 pages, 3 leaves.

With woodcut printer's device at the colophon.

Size 4 by 6" (14.5x9.5cm.)

Blind stamped pigskin binding , worn, missing ties, with manuscript the year of publication on the front cover. 


-- VD16 S 6480. -

The edition by the humanist Hermann von dem Busche (1468-1534), first published in Leipzig in 1504.

The Punica is the only work of the Roman poet Silus Italicus (around 25-100 AD), the epic about the second Punic War comprises around 12,000 verses and is considered the most comprehensive Latin epic that has come down to us from antiquity. 


Ex-library.

With old annotations.

Text in Latin