Ventes live - Lot 1156
[Prize book - Plantin Press]
Monita et exempla politica libri duo, qui virtutes et vitia principum spectant.
Antwerp, Plantin Press (Wid. & Sons of J. Moretus), 1613
€ 220 / 240
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Description du lot
Lge 4to: [8]-213-[6] pp. (quire d bound in wrong order; usual toning).
Contemp. sheep, gilt-ruled border on covers, spine with raised bands, a.e.g. (rubbed, spine partly dam.). Good copy.
Rare later ed. of Lipsius' treatise on the duties of rulers. A repr. of the 1606 Moretus ed. with an additional privilege of the Archdukes.
Ref. BB III:1006 L-378. - STCV 6606516. - Not in Bibl. Lips. Brux.
Prov. Brussels prize book with the prize awarded to "Franciscus Kintschot Bruxell." as "2dus ex minoribus ad maiores figuras", incl. a 5-line Latin poem in his praise. François (II) Kinschot (1616-1700), baron of Rivière, of Jette (etc.) was in 1659 created a count by Philip IV of Spain.