Live auction - Lot 754
[Neo-Latin poetry]
Opera quae reperiri potuerunt omnia, curante atque edente Petro Scriverio.
Leiden, J. Marcusz, 1619
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: [68]-301 pp. (some toning, sm. def. to title and to blank top margin of final ff.).
18th-c. mottled calf, gilt spine with raised bands and morocco label, marbled edges (sl. rubbed). Very good copy.
Rare first edition by Petrus Scriverius (1576-1660) of the collected Latin verses of the famous love poet J. Second (1511-1536). Engraved medal on title (the poet’s beloved Julia); engraved portrait of Second on *8v. Printed in italics.
Ref. Simoni S-115. - STCN. - Not in Oberlé.
Prov. Library stamps.