Live auction - Lot 774
Rare early specimen of a Latin prize book given in a private school
[Prize book - Leiden]
Comoediae sex, post optimas editiones emendatae [...] accurante Corn. Schrevelio.
Leiden, Fr. Hackius, 1651
Hammer price: €
550
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
8vo: [48]-825-[61] pp. (sl. marg. toning or dampstaining).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Very good copy.
Rare Leiden ed. by school rector Schrevelius (1605-1664).
Ref. STCN 061422576 (no copy in Leiden).
Prov. Prize awarded in December 1745 to "Joanni Gulielmo van der Schilde in Schola privata H.L. de Gast". Van der Schilde, a native of The Hague in 1757 defended his medical dissertation at Leiden University. - Flament, could this be Ch. S. Flament (1758-1835), first librarian of the Dutch Royal Library? (old name on front flyleaf).