Athenae Batavae, sive De urbe Leidensi, & Academia, virisque claris, qui utramque ingenio suo, atque scriptis, illustrarunt, libri duo.

4to: [44]-351-[1 bl.] pp. (pp. 11-16, 289-290 missing; some ff. toned, a few tiny wormholes in blank margin).

19th-c. gilt half calf, marbled paper on covers, gilt spine with 5 raised bands with morocco label, marbled endpapers (head def.). Good copy.

Most extensive ed. of a promotional history of Leiden University by J. Meursius (1579-1639). Engr. title, 8 engr. outside collation (lge fold. map + 7 double-page illustr. of the Siege of Leiden), and 58 engr.: 51 full-p. portraits, 1 full-p. ill. (Scaliger’s epitaph) and 6 half-p. ill. (i.a. "Hortus", "Theatrum Anatomicum", "Bibliotheca"), and a few sm. woodcut coin ill. Portraits of i.a. William of Orange, J. Dousa, B. Vulcanius, J. Lipsius, R. Dodonaeus, Fr. Raphelengius, J.J. Scaliger, Ph. Marnixius, C. Clusius, H. Grotius.
Ref. STCN 060867779. - Willems 237. - Haitsma Mulier/VdLem (Repert.) 334k.
Prov. 18th-c. French note on final p.