Live auction - Lot 1356
[Neo-Latin poetry - Gustav Adolf]
Gustavidos sive De bello Sueco-Austriaco libri tres, Poematum miscellaneorum liber unus Joannis Narsii Anastasii F. Dordraco-Batavi, medicinae doctoris.
Hamburg, J. Rebenlein, 1632
€ 300 / 450
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Lot description
4to: [4]-148 pp. (toned, unobtrusive dampstain, sm. def. in blank part of final f.).
Modern wrappers. Very good copy.
Rare and only Hamburg edition of an epic poem (in 3 "books") on Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594-1632) by his physician J. Narssius (1580-1637), a scholar and poet from Dordrecht. An additional "Book 4" appeared in 1634. Pp. 1-81 contain the "Gustavidos"; pp. 82-148 the "Poemata miscellanea", mainly verses on people and places linked to the Thirty Years’ War or to Amsterdam friends like C. Rekenarius, G. Vossius, C. Barlaeus.
Ref. VD17 23:238486A.
Prov. Lars Durehed (collector's stamp).