Live auction - Lot 1156

[Prize book - Plantin Press]

LIPSIUS, Justus

Monita et exempla politica libri duo, qui virtutes et vitia principum spectant.

Antwerp, Plantin Press (Wid. & Sons of J. Moretus), 1613

€ 220 / 240

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Lge 4to: [8]-213-[6] pp. (quire d bound in wrong order; usual toning).

Contemp. sheep, gilt-ruled border on covers, spine with raised bands, a.e.g. (rubbed, spine partly dam.). Good copy.

Rare later ed. of Lipsius' treatise on the duties of rulers. A repr. of the 1606 Moretus ed. with an additional privilege of the Archdukes.
Ref. BB III:1006 L-378. - STCV 6606516. - Not in Bibl. Lips. Brux.
Prov. Brussels prize book with the prize awarded to "Franciscus Kintschot Bruxell." as "2dus ex minoribus ad maiores figuras", incl. a 5-line Latin poem in his praise. François (II) Kinschot (1616-1700), baron of Rivière, of Jette (etc.) was in 1659 created a count by Philip IV of Spain.

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Lot 1156

Monita et exempla politica libri duo, qui virtutes et vitia principum spectant.

LIPSIUS, Justus

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