Live auction - Lot 1380

[Rhetoric]

VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes

Commentariorum rhetoricorum, sive Oratoriarvm institurionum, libri sex [4th. enl. & corr. ed.].

Leiden, J. Maire, 1643

€ 150 / 250

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2 parts in 1 vol., 4to: front.-[14]-431-[1 bl.], [8]-543-[1 bl.-72] pp. (dampstain in lower part, some local minor spotting near edges, tiny def. in front.).

Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine, ties. Good copy.

Rare new edition, the last one appearing during the author's lifetime (1st Leiden 1606), of an extensive treatise on rhetoric by the prolific scholar G.J. Vossius (1577-1649). Woodcut mark on both titles. With the often missing engr. folding frontispiece portrait of Vossius by Crispijn van de Passe II and a laudatory poem by C. Barlaeus.
Ref. Bierens de Haan 5140. - STCN 840057695 (rare variant, only 3 copies). - Not in BL.

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Lot 1380

Commentariorum rhetoricorum, sive Oratoriarvm institurionum, libri sex [4th. enl. & corr. ed.].

VOSSIUS, Gerardus Joannes

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