HOC VOLVMINE CONTINENTVR, Commentariorum de bello Gallico libri VIII ; De bello ciuili Pompeiano libri III ; De bello Alexandrino liber I ; De bello Africano liber I ; De bello Hispaniensi liber I. Pictura totius Galliae, & Hispaniae, ex C. Caesaris commentariis. Nomina locorum, urbiumq[ue] & populorum Galliae, & Hispaniae, ut olim dicebantur Latine, & nunc dicantur, iuxta litterarum ordinem. Pictura pontis in Rheno, item Auarici, Alexiae, Vxelloduni, Massiliae. Cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii.

Venetiis: Aldus, MDLIX [1559]., [1559].. Good. - Small octavo, 6-1/8 inches high by 4-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in contemporary limp vellum with raised bands titled in manuscript on the spine with the later handwritten date "1559". The covers are slightly stained and lightly bumped with slight wear to the head & tail of the spine and a chip to the rear joint. [32], 318 numbered leaves (i.e. 636 pages) & 2 leaves. Errors in foliation: 96 numbered 97, 239 numbered 229, 279 numbered 27, and 298 numbered 290. Illustrated with 2 double-page maps and 5 full-page woodcuts and with the printer's anchor & dolphin device on the title page and on the verso of the final leaf. The inner folds of the vellum are loose and there is slight split to the bottom of the front joint. There is a small piece out from the front edge of the front endpaper. Early ownership annotations on the endpapers and leaf 10 have been covered with early paper & paste and there is an annotation penned in an early hand on the front endpaper. There is a tiny hole to the bottom edge of one leaf and a tiny tear and chip to the top edge of leaf 104 has been repaired and reinforced with clear archival tape. A few signatures are lightly pulled. Good.

This Aldine Press edition includes a Preface by Paulus Manutius and prefatory notes by the editor, architect Giovanni Giocondo, writing under the name Joannes Jucundus.

From the library of Lincoln MacVeagh and his wife Margaret with their "Arcades ambo" bookplate. Lincoln MacVeagh (1890-1972), a Renaissance man, graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in 1913. He went on to study languages at the Sorbonne and became fluent in German, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek and Classical Greek. He served in the Atois, St. Mihiel and Meuse Argonne campaigns of World War I as an aide to the commanding general of the 80th Division and of the Ninth and Sixth Army Corps. He rose to the rank of Major. After the war he became a director of the Henry Holt and Company publishing firm where he became friendly with the poet Robert Frost. In 1923 he left the firm and founded the Dial Press. His name appears on the imprint of many of their publications. In 1933 President Roosevelt appointed him Minister to Greece. He followed presentation of his credentials with a speech in Classical Greek. While in Greece he conducted excavations beneath the Acropolis and made archeological contributions to the National Museum in Athens. He left Greece in 1941 when the German army over ran the country. From there he was appointed the first US Minister to Iceland where he negotiated agreements for the construction of the Keflavik airfield. In late 1942 he became Minister to the Union of South Africa and coordinated American wartime agencies there. In 1943 he was sent to Cairo as Ambassador so that he could assist the governments in exile of Greece and Yugoslavia. He returned to Athens as Ambassador in 1944. MacVeagh gave secret testimony before Congress concerning the Balkans in 1947, testimony that was an important factor in the formation of the Truman Doctrine. In 1948 as Ambassador to Portugal MacVeagh was influential in admitting her into NATO. In 1952 President Truman named him Ambassador to Spain. President Truman wrote to him on March 9, 1948: "On the occasion of your appointment as Ambassador to Portugal, I would like to make some personal expression of appreciation for the high services you have already rendered your country. During the past fifteen critical years you have served with distinction as Chief of the United states Missions to Iceland, the Union of South Africa, Yugoslavia and Greece. In this last post especially - as Minister from 1933 to 1941 and as Ambassador since 1943 - your scholarly statesmanship and diplomatic judgment have been of the utmost value."