Live veiling - Lot 804
[Plantin Press]
Euthanasia [Greek] sive Considerationes triginta, quibus homo moribundus adversus mortis horrorem excitari possit animarique. opus posthumum [...] ex museio Benrh. Rottendorffii.
Antwerp, Plantin Press (B. Moretus), 1666
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8vo: 329-[1-2 bl.] pp. (spotting and marg. dampstaining).
Contemp. overl. vellum, flat spine, sp. edges (stained). Good copy.
Very rare meditations on dying and death by the Münster Canon Weischer (d. 1655), edited by his former pupil Rottendorff, imperial "archiater" (physician). Dedicated to Alexander VII. Engr. front. Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. Not in STCV.
Prov. "Jo: Gassell [...] 1666" (at bottom of front.).