Live veiling - Lot 753
[Neo-Latin poetry - Westphalia]
Carmen heroicum panegyricum de situ, regione, moribus, et laudibus nobilissimae et antiquissimae veteris Saxoniae Provinciae, nunc Westphaliae dicta […].
[Rostock?], s.n., 1616
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4to: [16] ff. (fore-edge title border partly torn off, a few stains or spots).
Sewn (sl. loosening). Good copy.
Extremely rare (2nd recorded copy?). Long Latin poem in praise of Westphalia and its towns (Münster, Osnabrück, Paderborn, Herford) by the Rostock theology student Varmeier, a son of the councillor of Philip Sigismund of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. It was publicly recited at Rostock University on 17 February 1616. Title within elaborate woodcut border. A few marginal annotations and numerous underlinings.
Ref. VD17 12:656001V = USTC = WordlCat (same München copy only).
Prov. Contemp. ex dono at bottom of title (cropped).