Live auction - Lot 1358
[Neo-Latin poetry - Science]
Sirius. Additae sunt notae quaedam.
Franeker, U. Balck, 1638
€ 100 / 200
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Lot description
12mo: [24]-239-[1 bl.] pp.
19th-c. gilt red morocco. Very good copy.
Very rare astronomical poem by the Frisian scholar Winsemius (1586-1644).
Ref. STCN 830402306. - Hoogendoorn WinseP04.
Joined: La Croix, D. de - Le mariage des fleurs, en vers latins [...]. Avec la traduction française et des notes [4th ed. by A.-A. Barbier]. Paris, Drost, 1798. 8vo: 108 pp. [bound with] Petit-Radel, Ph. - Les mystères de Flore, ou Coup-d’oeil sur la naissance, les amours, le mariage et la mort des plantes. Extrait de l’ouvrage [...] intitulé "De amoribus Pancharitis et Zoroae, poema erotico-didacticon" [2nd ed.]. Paris, J.L. Chanson, 1813. 56 pp. Half morocco. 4th ed. of a popular poem on the sex life of plants, 1st publ. 1727 in S. Vaillant’s "Botanico Parisiense", and here edited by the bibliographer and librarian Barbier (1765-1825). Engr. front. (loose) with a touch of priapism. Ref. Oberlé 550. - Pritzel 4973. (2 vol.)