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OBSEQUENS, Julius.
See original version (French)
96
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OBSEQUENS, Julius.
See original version (French)
Estimate €200 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
OBSEQUENS, Julius.
Containing extracts from the *Book of Prodigies*, with annotations by Johannes Scheffer and supplements by Conrad Lycosthenes, edited by Franciscus Oudendorp, at Lugdunum Batavorum
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), Apud Samuelem Luchtmans, 1720
In-8, 215 pp. and (4)ff. index and errata, red and black title, typographical mark on the title page. Sturdy, gilt ivory-coloured vellum of the period; smooth spine decorated with gilt scrolls and gilt dies; large gilt die bearing the coat of arms on the covers; gilt scroll within a frame; edges speckled with blue (traces of green silk laces, slight soiling of the vellum).
The Book of Prodigies is a sort of compilation of extraordinary phenomena (monsters, celestial apparitions and marvellous events)
Julius Obsequens, sometimes rendered as Jules Obséquent, was a pagan Roman writer
Dutch ‘prijsband’ binding (or ‘prijsband’) stamped with the coat of arms of the city of Amsterdam in a gilt stamp on the covers
In the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries, the major cities of the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Leiden, Rotterdam, The Hague, Haarlem) had highly prestigious Latin schools. At the end of each academic year, the Amsterdam city council would present exceptional study books to the top pupils to reward them for their achievements in Latin or Greek
A sheet of laid paper added opposite the title page:
Ex libris bearing the coat of arms, printed on laid paper (19th–20th centuries). Varnished (on the inside cover).
Caillet, 3299, ‘Valued edition’.
See original version (French)
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