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JUNIUS, Hadrianus

Batavia, in qua praeter gentis & insulae antiquitates, originem ...

Leiden
ex off. Plantiniana, Fr. Raphelengius
1588

€280 - €360

"4to, [20]-411 pp, woodcut ill. in text. Bound with: Petrus SCRIVERIUS. Batavia illustrata. Leiden, Louis Elsevier, 1609. [8], 232, 184, 56; 40 pp. With numerous woodcut text ill. and 35 portraits. Ivory vellum binding, with blind tooling, first hinge broken, morocco title-piece on spine. marbled end-lvs, heraldic bookplate of Samuel Wegg"

"1) Original ed. of this humanist history of the Netherlands in Roman Antiquity and Middle Ages, by the physician and first Leiden professor H. Junius (1511-1575). It contains one of the earliest references to Laurens Coster and the invention of printing. Ref. Haitsma Mulier/VdLem 263a ; Typogr. Bat. 2727 ; Adams J-442 2) Willems 57 (calls for 39 portraits); Rahir 39; Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 436b"

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