Live auction - Lot 1341
[Prize book - 's-Hertogenbosch]
L.A. Florus cum notis integris Cl. Salmasii et selectissimis variorum, accurante S.M.D.C. Additus etiam L. Ampelius, ex bibliotheca Cl. Salmasii
Amsterdam, [D.] Elzevier, 1674
€ 200 / 250
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Lot description
8vo: front.-[14]-588-[108]-46 pp. (some marg. soiling on a few last ff.).
18th-c. mottled calf, gilt-ruled boards with coat of arms, gilt-orn. spine with raised bands, red spr. edges (sl. rubbed, rests of ribbons on boards, one corner sl. bumped). Very good copy.
Reprint of the 1660-edition of this compilation annotated by Cl. Saumaise, including Ampelius' "Liber memorialis". Nice front. engr. by C. van Dalen.
Ref. Willems 1490. - STCN.
Prov. Coat of arms of 's-Hertogenbosch, probably a prize book (prize gone) of the "Illustre School" (Latin College) of the City (supralibros; ref. de Jonghe II:496:3. - Sorgeloos, Quatre siècles de reliure en Belgique, II:44: same arms and almost identical binding on a 18th-c. ed.). - Mod. armorial bookpl.