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LEIDEN -- (MEURSIUS, J.). Illustrium Hollandiae & Westfrisiae ordinum Alma Academia Leidensis. Leiden, J. Marcius & J. à Coster, 1614. (28) lvs.; 231 pp. W. ti-engr., lge. fold. plate (w. a few tiny tears), 4 text-engr. depicting the Academy building, the library, the anatomical theatre & the botanical garden & 54 fine engr. portrs. in the text of founders, governors, professors, etc. 4°. 19th c. brds. (Name entry on ti., slightly browned/foxed in places).
Rare complete first (second 1625) edition of an important work on the founding years of Leiden University. With the fine large folding plate of a 'triumphant' train of the founders and faculties (allegorically represented here). Among the portrayed are famous men as Grotius, Dousa, Scaliger, Clusius, Dodonaeus, etc. - Willems, 237 note; Rahir, 1802; Van Someren I, 148; Haitsma Mulier/Van der Lem, 334k (ed. 1625).€ 400
result € 400
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