Live auction - Lot 1049

[Neo-Latin poetry - Plantin Press]

TORRENTIUS, Laevinus

Poemata sacra.

Antwerp, Plantin Press (Wid. Chr. Plantin & J. Moretus), 1594


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8vo: 392 [= 384] pp. (sl. toned).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Nice tall copy.

Collected Latin poetry of the Antwerp bishop, and friend of Chr. Plantin, L. Torrentius (1525-1595). Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Imhof (Moretus) T-13. - BB V:378-379:T-154. - BT 4551. - Adams T-828.
Prov. "Bibliothecae Martinianae Louanij", i.e. Sint-Maartensdal monastery Leuven (inscription on title). - Name on front endpaper. - Libr. stamp and ticket.
Joined: Du Monin, Joannes Edoardus - Beresithias, sive Mundi creatio, ex Gallico G. Salustij du Bartas Heptamero expressa […]. Eiusdem […] Manipulus poeticus non infulsus. Paris, J. Parant, 1579. 8vo: [8]-131 ff., 104 [= 120]-[2] pp. (toned, occ. staining, top corner of last ff. torn off with loss of a few letters). Old sheep (rebacked, somewhat worn). Rare Latin translation of Du Bartas’ Semaine by the prolific poet Du Monin (Gy 1557-murdered Paris 1586). Part II contains his Latin and French verse dedicated to or in praise of P. de Ronsard, O. de Lassus, J. Stadius, G. Buchanan, Petrarch etc. With Latin versions of some Petrarch sonnets as e.g. "S’amor non è". Ref. Pettegree (FB) 65654. - STC French 393. - Not in Adams, Oberlé. Prov. A few old names. - Duque de Medina Celi (armorial bookpl.). (2 vol.)

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Lot 1049

Poemata sacra.

TORRENTIUS, Laevinus

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