Caesar, Caius Julius

folio (455 x 275mm.), additional double-page engraved title by Huyberts after Audenaerde, engraved portrait of the dedicatee John, duke of Marlborough by George Vertue after Godfrey Kneller, engraved initials, head- and tailpieces, engraved portrait of Caesar, 6 double-page engraved maps of Gaul, Germania, Britannia, Italia, Egypt and Hispania, 78 engraved plates (54 double-page), numbered 1-87, late eighteenth-century English diced Russia, gilt border, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco lettering-piece, gilt edges, Aurochs plate slightly shaved, rebacked retaining original spine, two small repairs to upper cover, corners repaired

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A lavish publication, published by subscription, with engravings by Dutch artists. Nine of the plates are copies of Andrea Mantegna's Triumphs of Caesar, commissioned in the late fifteenth century for the Gonzaga palace in Mantua, later in the possession of Charles I and now at Hampton Court.