Lusus imaginis jocosae sive Echus a variis poetis, variis linguis et numeris exculti, ex bibliotheca Theodori Dousae [...]. Accessit M. Schoockii Dissertatio de natura soni et echus.

8vo: [16]-102-[2]-69-[3] pp. (typogr. title missing; toned, dampstained).

Old vellum flat spine (def.).

Fascinating collection of "echo" poems in various languages, incl. Janus Dousa’s "Echo" (1603), as well as poems by Secundus, Scaliger, Huygens. With an essay by M. Schoockius (1614-1669) on the nature of sound and echo. Engr. front.
Ref. STCN 841196427. - Oberlé 26.
Joined: 1. Blyenburgius, D. (ed.) - Cento ethicus, ex variis poetis hinc inde contextus. Leiden, C. Guyot for L. Elzevier, 1599. 8vo: [16]-260-[4] pp. (top edge dampstained and clumsily stengthened, some mouldy marginal stains). Mod. vellum, flat spine titled in ink. Early Elzevier anthology of classical and Renaissance Latin poetry by the Dordrecht lawyer and poet Damas Blijenburg (1558-1616). Authors represented include Alciatus, Baudius, Bembus, Buchanan, Camerarius, Erasmus, Flaminius, Lotichius, Marullus, Morus, Politianus, Sambucus, Torrentius, and many more. Ref. STCN 83340945X. - TB 666. - Willems 38. - Pettegree (NB) 5244. - Not in Oberlé. Prov. Collector's stamp. - 2. Fabricius, V. - Poemata. Editio secunda [...]. Accessit Pransus paratus sive Satira in poetas, & eorum contemptores. Amsterdam, J. Janssonius, 1638. 12mo: 16-264-[1-1 bl.] pp. (cut short at bottom occ. shaving catchwords, bottom of 2nd half dampstained). Mod. bards covered with a 19th-c. archival document. Collected Latin poetry of the German Leiden medical student Fabricius (1612-1667), a fan of J. Dousa, and later mayor of Danzig. With many poems on Dutch contemporaries. Woodcut mark on title. Copy with the final Errata leaf. Ref. STCN 850093783. - Willems 384 (n.). - Plague and Print 1638/2. - Not in Oberlé. - 3. Veterum, et illustrium saeculi XVI. poetarum epigramata, in usum scholarum Piarum ab [...] Camillo Nicolio selecta, et annotationibus illustrata. Florence, P.C. Viviani, 1738. 8vo: xiv-[2]-231-[1 bl.] pp. Contemp. half sheep, gilt flat spine (rubbed). Title in red and black. - 4. Lusus ingenii et verborum in animi remissionem curavit Dav. Chr. Seybold. Strasbourg, A. Koenig, 1792. 16mo: 220 pp. Contemp. boards, red edges. Partly printed on bluish paper. (5 vol.)