In-folio, [20] - 892 - [36] pp. Title-page printed in red and black, with beautiful woodcut printer's device (cfr. Delalain 176: au-dessus d'une sphère céleste se tient debout une femme tenant d'une main un sceptre, de l'autre une lampe allumée). A few margins with pale damp staining, but in general in very good copy. Contemporary pigskin binding, richly blind-tooled, spine with 5 raised edges, edges mottled red and blue
"Provenance: ms. ex libris on title page (1639), ex libris Paul van de Woestijne (1934) Martial (ca. 38 AD- ca. 102 AD), a Latin poet from Hispania, satirises city life, women, objects, scandalous activities of his acquaintances etc. First edition of Rader's influential commentary on Martial. Matthaeus Rader's commentary was praised by Scaliger. Ref. Dibdin, II, 230 ""commentary of RADERUS may be numbered with the best of those on Martial"""