‎ORTELIUS Abraham - VELSERIUS M. - Marcus WELSER - Justus LIPSIUS :‎
‎Aurei Saeculi Imago sive Germanorum Veterum Vita, Mores, Ritus, & Religio. Iconibus delineata, & Commentariis ...(bound with) Rerum Boicarum Libri Quinque. Historiam à gentis origine...Rerum Augustanarum Vindelicarum ...De Bibliothecis Syntagma (Convolute , five late 16th or early 17th century in-4° imprints on german history)‎

‎"18. Convolute - Sammelband ; 1) ORTELIUS Abraham; Aurei Saeculi Imago sive Germanorum Veterum Vita, Mores, Ritus, & Religio. Iconibus delineata, & Commentariis... Antverpiae (Antwerpen), P.Galle, 1596, (28)pp with 10 finely engraved vignettes, printer's mark of the Plantin Press at the end. (Imhof O-73). 2) VELSERIUS Marcus; Rerum Boicarum Libri Quinque. Historiam à gentis origine, ad Carolum M.complexi. Augustae Vindelicorum (Augsburg), Ad insigne pinus, 1602, title with large engraved vignette + (8) + (2)(bl) + 338 pp + (1)(err) + (1)(printer's mark). 3)WELSER Marcus; Rerum Augustanarum Vindelicarum Commentarii Nominis et Populieius..., Francofurti ad Moenum, (Frankfurt) Egenolphianis, 1594, (6) + (2)(bl) + 238 + (9)pp + 1 folding copper engraved map + one folding woodengraving and several text engravings. 4) LIPSIUS Justus; De Bibliothecis Syntagma, Antverpiae (Antwerpen), Johannes Moretus, 1602, title with copper engraved printer's mark + 34 pp + (1)(approb.) + (1)(bl). (Imhof L-13 )( first edition). 5) LIPSIUS Justus; Dispunctio Notarum Mirandulani codicis as Cor. Tacitum. Antverpiae, Ioannem Moretum, 1602, title with wood-engraved printer's mark + 40 pp + (3)(priv.) + (1)(bl). (Imhof L-29) ( first edition). Contemporary full calf, double gilt fillet on covers, raised back with three gilt titles (upper cover partly loose, top and end of spine damaged with some loss of leather, corners worn with loss of leather, some stains and browning at the interior, especially book three is more browned, a few marginal worm galleries in book four. Notwithstanding these defects a rather well preserved convolute/Sammelband. It would be worthwhile to try to unravel the early 17th century scholarly motives which brought these 5 rare and highly interesting books on history together in one binding. Unfortunately there is no indication of provenance."‎

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