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CESAR, Julius (100–44 BCE). Commentarii di Gaio Giulio Cesare. Translated by Agostino Ortica della Porta. Venice: Hieronimo Calepino, 1552. Small 8vo (152 x 108 mm). (Title–page trimmed below imprint, some dampstaining near end). Woodcut printer’s device on title–page, 5 full–page woodcuts, 2 double–page woodcut maps, woodcut initials. Full contemporary limp vellum, upper cover titled in a contemporary hand, leather ties (covers and spine worn, spine partially torn at foot, old rubberstamp on spine). Provenance: Christoph Wenzel, Graf von Nostitz (1648–1712), armorial bookplate tipped on front blank verso of the famous collector and Czech nobleman; early indecipherable signature on title. A rare translation of Cesar’s commentaries with illustrations depicting the bridge that Cesar built, allegedly in ten days, to cross the Rhine into Germania. We could locate only one copy institutionally and no copies appearing at auction.