Curtius Rufus, "ALEXANDER MAGNUS, con antiquitates Persarum, Macedonum, Pheonicum, Carthaginesium, Romanorum, Indorum", Hagae, 1698. A fine edition. The first so richly illustrated. Contemporary leather, upper cover almost detached, inside fine. In large 8vo 20x13cm engraved frontis, title, [64] 855p.[162], 4 copper engraved maps and 12 copper engraved plates (several folded). Alexanders expedition remains one of the earlier and largest travel accounts in human history, as he explored vast territories around the Levant and further in Asia. In addition of the description of the battles and the political events, the account includes fine descriptions of people, lands, roads, customs and cities. An invaluable source. This publication is richly illustrated with 4 newly drawn maps of Greece and the Levant (neither of the maps in Zacharakis) and many beautiful plates with views of an exotic Levant, drawn by the best Dutch artists of the time. RARE