Гай Юлий Цезарь (100-44 до н. э.) и его продолжатели. Записки Юлия Цезаря и его продолжателей о Галльской войне, о Гражданской войне, об Александрийской войне, об Африканской войне / перевод и комментарии академика М. М. Покровского ; ответственный редактор академик И. И. Толстой ; переплёт и титул художника И. Ф. Рербера.
Серия: Литературные памятники, № 2 (основана Академией наук СССР в 1948 году).
Москва-Ленинград : издательство Академии наук СССР, 1948. 559 (560) страниц, 8 листов иллюстраций (портреты, карты, таблицы) ; увеличенный формат (70×92/16).
Тираж 5000 экземпляров. Первое издание перевода; второй номер знаменитой серии.
Труд подготовлен посмертно по рукописи академика М. М. Покровского (1869-1942); научная редакция Ф. А. Петровского. Параллельный титульный лист на латыни. Ляссе.
Издательский цельнотканевый переплёт с золотым тиснением декоративного орнамента (свиток) на передней крышке и тиснёным названием на корешке.
Переплёт - хорошее: потёртость по краям. Блок - очень хорошее: чистый, крепкий, полный, с иллюстрациями, картами и указателем имён.
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Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) and continuators. The Commentaries of Julius Caesar and His Continuators on the Gallic War, the Civil War, the Alexandrian War, and the African War / translated and annotated by Academician M. M. Pokrovsky ; responsible editor Academician I. I. Tolstoy ; binding and title design by I. F. Rerberg.
Series: Monuments of World Literature (Literaturnye Pamyatniki), No. 2 (founded by the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1948).
Moscow-Leningrad : USSR Academy of Sciences Press, 1948. 559 (560) pp., 8 leaves of illustrations (portraits, maps, tables) ; large format (70 x 92 / 16).
Print run of 5,000 copies. First edition of this translation; the second number in the landmark series.
Prepared for posthumous publication from the manuscript of Academician M. M. Pokrovsky (1869-1942); scholarly editing by F. A. Petrovsky. Parallel Latin title page. With a ribbon marker (lasse).
Publisher's full cloth binding, gilt-tooled with a decorative scroll motif on the front board and a gilt-lettered spine.
Binding good: minimal edge wear. Text block very good: clean, firm, and complete, with illustrations, maps, and a name index.
The second title in "Literaturnye Pamyatniki" ("Monuments of World Literature"), the celebrated Soviet and later Russian academic series of scholarly editions of world classics founded in 1948 under the patronage of Academy of Sciences president Sergei Vavilov. This volume gathers, in one authoritative Russian translation, the complete corpus of Caesarian military commentaries: the seven books on the Gallic War and three on the Civil War composed by Caesar himself, together with the continuation on the Gallic War and the accounts of the Alexandrian and African Wars written by officers of his staff. The translation and extensive commentary were the last major work of the classical philologist Academician Mikhail M. Pokrovsky (1869-1942), prepared for publication posthumously by F. A. Petrovsky, who took particular care to preserve the text as Pokrovsky himself had intended it. Illustrated with plates, campaign maps, and a chronological table converting the Roman calendar, and bound in a striking cloth binding designed by the artist I. F. Rerberg, the volume is both an important document in the history of Soviet classical scholarship and a handsome collector's edition of one of the foundational texts of Roman historiography and Latin prose.