Caesar, Giovanni Giocondo, Eutropius, Paolo Emili; Jean Du Tillet - C. Iulii Caesaris Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii {bound with] Pauli Aemylii Veronensis, historici - 1543/1544

This sammelband of 2 books from the first half of the 16th century, with 3 titlepages is in very good condition and exists of:

1 Iulii Caesaris Rerum ab se gestarum commentarii. De bello Gallico libri VIII. De bello civili Pompeiano libri III. De bello Alexandrino liber I. De bello Africo liber I. De bello Hispaniensi liber I. - 12], 128, [20] lvs (= 320 pp).
This edition edited by Giovanni Giocondo includes the anonymous Bellum Africum and Bellum Hispaniense, and Aulus Hirtius's Bellum Alexandrinum and his continuation of Caesar's De bello Gallico
Michel de Vascosan's edition is one of the very few folio editions of Caesar printed in the 16th century. It is a handsome book set in an attractive italic, and the text set in an elegant Roman type, adorned with large decorative initials by Oronce Fin . The book is illustrated with woodcut maps of Hispania and Gaul, and five woodcuts.

II Pauli Aemylii Veronensis, historici clarissimi, De rebus gestis Francorum [..] Additum est de regibus item Francorum chronicon (by J. Du Tillet) - Paris, Michael Vascosan, 1544. -[4] 244, 28, [20] lvs.
The Italian humanist Paolo Emili was invited by Charles VII to write a history of France. The first edition appeared in 1539.

Condition: Well preserved clean copy with only few signs of aging. The 19th century frontcover however is almost loose.