12mo. [12], 364pp, [24]. With an engraved title page, a single full-page engraved illustration in the text, and an engraved folding map. Contemporary ink-ruled vellum. Lightly rubbed, upper joint starting. Inked ownership inscription 'J. Wordswoth / Trin: Coll. Cant.' and later book-label of Walter R. Sadler to recto of FFEP, title page naively reattached with tissue paper, slight loss to lower corner of leaf D1, minute burn-hole to text of leaf E3, without loss of sense.

The only surviving work of Roman historian Quintus Curtius Rufus, a biography of Alexander the Great, that though weak in areas of geography and military strategy, succeeds in conveying the character and attitudes of the classical emperor. This Elzevir edition was edited by celebrated Dutch Renaissance scholar Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655).

John Wordsworth (1805-1839), classical scholar and tutor at Trinity College Cambridge, nephew of poet William Wordsworth.