Juste Lipse - Roma illustrata, sive Antiquitatum Romanarum breviarium. - 1645






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First edition of this work on Roman antiquities by Juste Lipse, published in Leiden in 1645.
Decorated with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece and two engraved plates outside the main text.
Preserved in a period binding in vellum with overlapping covers, the rounded spine adorned with the manuscript title in ink. Careful printing in small round characters, decorated initials, and culs de lampe.
In very good condition. Solid binding, slightly shaded spine. Interior well preserved, with a few rare scattered foxing and yellowed pages. Three small brown stains on a page of the index.
Beautiful copy, rare.
Iustus Lipsius or in French Juste Lipse, originally named Joost Lips, born in Overijse (Duchy of Brabant) on October 18, 1547, and died in Leuven on March 23, 1606, was a philologist and humanist who lived in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is today Belgium.
Juste Lipse
Illustrated Rome or a brief account of Roman antiquities. A small work in the style of commentaries on the writers of Roman matters.
Leiden, Franciscum Moiardum, 1645.
in-12 (13 x 8 cm); (5 pages), oration on the theology of pagans (by Marc-Zverius Boxhorn) (3 pages) + 393 pages + index (19 pages)
Seller's Story
First edition of this work on Roman antiquities by Juste Lipse, published in Leiden in 1645.
Decorated with a beautiful allegorical frontispiece and two engraved plates outside the main text.
Preserved in a period binding in vellum with overlapping covers, the rounded spine adorned with the manuscript title in ink. Careful printing in small round characters, decorated initials, and culs de lampe.
In very good condition. Solid binding, slightly shaded spine. Interior well preserved, with a few rare scattered foxing and yellowed pages. Three small brown stains on a page of the index.
Beautiful copy, rare.
Iustus Lipsius or in French Juste Lipse, originally named Joost Lips, born in Overijse (Duchy of Brabant) on October 18, 1547, and died in Leuven on March 23, 1606, was a philologist and humanist who lived in what was then the Spanish Netherlands and is today Belgium.
Juste Lipse
Illustrated Rome or a brief account of Roman antiquities. A small work in the style of commentaries on the writers of Roman matters.
Leiden, Franciscum Moiardum, 1645.
in-12 (13 x 8 cm); (5 pages), oration on the theology of pagans (by Marc-Zverius Boxhorn) (3 pages) + 393 pages + index (19 pages)
