The Tactiks of Aelian or Art of Embattailing an Army After Ye Grecian Manner. Englished and Illustrated with Figures Throughout: and Notes upon Ye Chapters of Ye Ordinary Motions of Ye Phalange. [Translator’s dedication signed: Io: Bingham.].

London: The Tactiks of Aelian or Art of Embattailing an Arm, 1616.

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First Edition in English, In this Earliest state the contents begin on p. 5. Engraved title, 50 engraved plates. (Title shaved at upper margin with a little loss.). The title page is engraved and signed: Egidius Gelius sculpsit A 1616 Woudrichemij in Hollandia. (with repair) [6], 7, [1], 7-159, [9] p. Folio. Contemporary speckled calf, tooled and blocked in gilt. Provenance: Walter Steuart (early inscriptions). ESTC S106791; STC (2nd ed.), 161.

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The Tactiks of Aelian is a handbook of Greek, i.e. Macedonian, drill and tactics as practiced by the Hellenistic successors of Alexander the Great.