Page 2 and 3 of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucan" class="extiw" title="w:Lucan">Lucan’s</a> <i>De bello civili</i> (alias <i>Pharsalia</i>), edited by Theodor Pulmann (also Pulman or Poelmann), printed by the Officina Plantiniana (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe_Plantin" class="extiw" title="w:Christophe Plantin">Plantin</a>) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Moretus" class="extiw" title="w:Jan Moretus">Johannes/Jan Moretus</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Antwerp" class="extiw" title="w:en:Antwerp"><span title="municipality in the province of Antwerp, Belgium">Antwerp</span></a> in 1592.<br>
On the left page (2), you see a Neolatin poem (<i>Hexastichon</i>) about Lucan’s work and the ex-libris of a former owner. On the right page (3) begins Pulmann’s foreword, a dedication letter to Nicolaus Rococcius. This foreword is dated (at the end) to 1564, the year of Pulmann’s 1st edition of Lucan’s poem, and treats the cruels of civil wars from ancient Rome to Pulmann’s own time.
Foreword by Theodor Pulmann (also Pulman or Poelmann). Book printed by the Officina Plantiniana (Plantin/Moretus), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Antwerp" class="extiw" title="w:en:Antwerp"><span title="municipality in the province of Antwerp, Belgium">Antwerp</span></a>. Scan by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Aristeas" title="User:Aristeas">Aristeas</a>
1592
<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>