first edition
1675 · Amstelodami
by Courcelles, Etienne de
Amstelodami: apud Danielem Elsevirium, 1675. First edition, folio, pp. [36], 1028, [34]; title page printed in red and black, printer's woodcut device on title page; text in double column, woodcut initials and decorations; contemporary full vellum, manuscript titling on spine; vellum a bit soiled, front hinge cracked; all else very good and sound. Includes an important eulogy of the author by Arnold Poelenburg. In this copy in an early hand on a preliminary flyleaf is a 36-line account of the author's life. Copinger 1241; Willems 1506: "Belle edition publiée par les soins de Phil. à Limborch."
(Inventory #: 48847)