Epistolarum selectarum centuria quarta miscellanea postuma.

Antwerp, Plantin Press (J. Moretus), 1607

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Lot description

4to: [12]-83-[5] pp. (usual toning).

Contemp. gilt mottled calf, covers with gilt arms and orn. border, flat spine with gilt orn. frame, a.e.g. (rubbed, head def., corners sl. bumped). Good copy.

Very rare issue B with a woodcut mark on title instead of the usual engraving (issue A).
Ref. Imhof (Moretus) L-48 (B). - BB III:950:L-257d. - Bibl. Lips. Brux. 111.
Bound with: 1. Id. - Politicorum sive Civilis doctrinae libri sex [...]. Additae Notae auctiores, tum & De una religione liber [...]. Ibid., 1599. 223-[1 bl.]-90-[5] pp. (pp. 5-8, 11-14,17-18, 21-22, 25-28 missing). Engr. mark on title; woodcut mark on part title and at the end. Ref. Imhof L-65. - BB III:14045-1046:L-438. - Not in Bibl. Lips. Brux. - 2. Iusti Lipsii sapientiae et litterarum antistitis fama postuma. Ibid., 1607. [8]-114-[1] pp. Engr. mark on title. Full-page engr. portrait by Th. Galle. Ref. Imhof I-7. - BB III:1111-1113:L-548. - Bibl. Lips. Brux. 420-422. - 3. Puteanus, Erycius - Lipsiomnema anniversarium, sive Iusti Lipsii V. C. Laudatio funebris, die anniversario habita. item Nicoali Oudarti in Manes Lipsii secundi adfectus. Ibid., 1607. 28-[3] pp. Woodcut mark on title and at end. Ref. Imhof P-20. - BB IV:765:P-163. - Bibl. Lips. Brux. 433. - 4. [Woverius, Joannes] - Assertio Lipsiani donarii adversus gelastorum suggillationes. Ibid., 1607. 30-[2 bl.] pp. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Imhof W-3. - BB V:874-875:W-87. - Bibl. Lips. Brux. 448-450. - 5. Rivius, Gaugericus - Iusti Lipsii principatus litterarius [...]. Ibid., 1607. 30-[1] pp. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. Imhof R-9. - BB III:1112-1113:L-548c. - Bibl. Lips. Brux. 435-437. - 6. [Rosweyde, Heribertus] - Iusto Lipsio Inferiae Iosepho Scaligero vindiciae a Leydensibus Academicis data. [Ibid., 1607]. 16 pp. Ref. Imhof R-11. - BB IV:918-919:R-71. - Bibl. Lips. Brux. 438-440.
Prov. Dominique de Vic (1588-1661), from 1629 bishop of Auch (Gers) (gilt arms on covers). - Auch prize book awarded in 1640 to "Jacobus Darnault".