Batavia, in quo praeter gentis & insulae antiquitates, originem, decora, mores (…) declaratur quae fuerit vetus Batavia, quae Plinio, Tacito, & Ptolomaeo cognita: quae item genuina inclytae Francorum nationis fuerit sedes. 2nd ed. (1st 1588) of...
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this humanist history of the Netherlands in Roman Antiquity and Middle Ages, by the physician and 1st Leiden professor H. Junius (1511-1575). It contains one of the earliest references to Laurens Coster and the invention of printing. Woodcut mark on title. Engr. portrait of Junius with a Latin poem by P(etrus) S(criverius). Woodcuts in text (coins etc.). Old ms. notes on flyls. Ref. STCN (i.a. BL).
Joined : Scriverius, P. - Beschryvinge van alle de graven van Holland, Zeeland ende Vriesland. The Hague, J. Tongerlo, J. Doll & L. van Dijck, 1678 (front.: 1677), 12mo, cont. sheep (worn), [40]-592 pp. Pt. 1, complete in itself of a history of the Counts of Holland etc. by P. Scriverius (1576-1660). Ill. with an front. and 20 engr. portraits. (2 vol.)
Joined : Scriverius, P. - Beschryvinge van alle de graven van Holland, Zeeland ende Vriesland. The Hague, J. Tongerlo, J. Doll & L. van Dijck, 1678 (front.: 1677), 12mo, cont. sheep (worn), [40]-592 pp. Pt. 1, complete in itself of a history of the Counts of Holland etc. by P. Scriverius (1576-1660). Ill. with an front. and 20 engr. portraits. (2 vol.)
