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LYDIUS, Jacobus

Agonistica sacra, sive Syntagma vocum & phrasium Agonisticarum

Roterodami
ex off. Arnoldi Leers
1657

€100 - €160

"In-12mo, [36] + 179 + [1] pp, woodcut title vignette, text in Latin and Greek, first edition, about sports and play in the Antiquity. Dutch version: ""De heylige stryden, ofte Verhandelinge vande strijdperken en loopbanen der Grieken en Romeynen."" Followed by: idem. Belgium gloriosum. Dordrecht, Vincent Caimax, 1668. [24] + 282 + [6] pp, woodcut title vignette. Vellum binding, title in ink on spine"

Jacobus Lydius (1610-1679) was a Dutch reformed theologist and clergyman, from 1637 in Dordrecht

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