Epistolarum selectarum chilias [...]. Accesserunt [...] quatuor Indices [...].

8vo: [16]-1078 [= 1062]-[65-1 bl.] pp. (some toning and marginal dampstaining, traces of use, some worming in blank bottom margin of quires Bb-Ff).

Contemp. leather, spine with 4 raised bands (loosening, endpapers & flyleaves loose or gone).

Very rare extensive one-volume ed. of a large selection from Lipsius' correspondence, 1st publ. Geneva 1610. The present ed. appeared in 2 issues, with Merauld’s name, and either "Lugduni" (as here) or "Coloniae Allobrogum" (Geneva) as place of publication. Woodcut orn. on title.
Ref. BB III:960:L-277. - Cp. Bibl. Lips. Brux. 120 (Geneva issue).
Prov. "Laurentius Torkington his booke 1665" (old ownership entry on front flyleaf & name on title). - A few contemp. schoolboy’s notes.