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Claudii Salmasii, viri maximi, Epistolarum liber primus. Accedunt, De laudibus et vita ejusdem, prolegomena. Accurante Antonio Clementio..
Portion of title: Epistolarum liber primus
Lugduni Batavorum : Ex typographia Adriani Wyngaerden, bibliopolae & typographi, Heidelbergensis ac Teutoburgensis, M D CLVI. [1656]
[8], LXXII, 294, [2]; [2], 77, [1]; 67, [1] p. : ill. (port.) ; 22 cm. (4to)
Signatures: *-10*⁴ A-2O⁴ chi² (-chi 1) ²A-²K⁴ (-²K4) a-h⁴ i².
No more published. Cf. Haag. La France protestante, v.9, p. 169.
The first part contains a life of Saumaise, pages I-LXXII, in addition to a collection of letters.
The second part has divisional half-title page: "Claudii Salmasii Ad Aegidium Menagium epistola; super Herode infanticida viri celeberrimi tragoedia, et censura Balsacii." This was first published in 1643 as a reply to Balzac's Response a la lettre et un discours de Balsac, sur une tragedie de Heins., intitulee: Herodes infanticida, 1642.
The third part has running title only: "Epistola de regionibus et ecclesiis suburbicariis". This was published in 1619 under the title: Amici ad amicum de suburbicariis regionibus et ecclesiis suburbicariis epistola in reply to J. Sirmond's Censura coniecturae ... Paris, 1618.
Text in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.
Engraved portrait of the author: p. [8], 1st count.
Woodcut title vignette (printer's device with motto "Ardua quae pulchra), initials, head- and tail-pieces.
CLC, S379
Booklabel recording donation to Eton College by John Reynolds in 1751.
18th century sprinkled calf binding with blidn tooled fillets; sprinkled textblock; brown and gilt morocco spinelabel.
Previous shelfmark: Fi.2.08.
Heinsius, Daniel, 1580 - 1655 Herodes infanticida.
Balzac, Jean-Louis Guez de, 1597 - 1654 Response a la lettre et un discours de Balsac, sur une tragedie de Heins., intitulee: Herodes infanticida.
Sirmond, Jacques, 1559 - 1651 Censura coniecturae.
Latin letters Early works to 1800.
Clement, Anthony, 1620 - 1657 editor.
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Netherlands Leiden.
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B49566