Four Neo-Latin anthologies.

1. Pratus (Du Pré), C. - Pratum Claudii Prati, continens anthologiam, epistolarum, orationum, sententiarum, apophtegmatum, aenigmatum, epitaphiorum, & carminum [...], libri quatuor. Paris, J. Libert, 1614. 8vo: 16-156 pp. (toned, sm. def.). Limp vellum. Engr. portrait of Marie de Medicis. Compilation by Du Pré (1550-1620) of letters & prose texts by Muretus, Ramus, Bembus, Hospitalius etc., as well as poems in French and Italian. Interesting section of epitaphs: Petrarch, Boccaccio, Dante, Vives, Erasmus, Despauterius, Lipsius (pp. 145-147). Ref. Cp. Oberlé 105 (other work). Prov. F. Renard (mod. bookpl.). - 2. Nugae venales sive Thesaurus ridendi & iocandi, ad gravissimos severissimosque viros, patres melancholicorum, conscriptos. Editio ultima [...]. "Prostant apud Neminem, sed tamen Ubique", 1720. 12mo: 328 pp. Sp. boards. On pp. 237-253 "Pugna porcorum per P. Porcium, poetam" (connected with the Leuven Collegium Porci) with imprint "Niverstadii, Apud Gasparum Myrrheum, Melchiorem Thureum, & Balthasarum Aureum". Ref. VD18 12293849. - 3. Carmina quadragesimalia ab Aedis Christi Oxon[iensis] alumnis composita [...]. Oxford, Sheldonian, 1723. Lge 8vo: 168 pp. Mod. half morocco. Ref. ESTC T99853. - Not in Oberlé. - 4. Musae rhetorices seu Carminum libros quinque [...] recognovit J.A. Amar. Paris, A. Delalain, 1809. 12mo: 290 pp. Half leather. Ref. Not in Oberlé.
Joined: 1. Iollyvetus, E. - Fulmen in Aquilam, seu Gustavi Magni, serenissimi Suecorum, Gotthorum, Vandalorum regis, &c., Bellum Sueco-Germanicum. Heroico-politicum poema. Paris, M. Guillemot, 1636. 12mo: [10]-219-[1] pp. (engr. front missing.; toned, marginal dampstaining). Contemp. vellum, flat spine. Extr. rare Latin epic poem about Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden (1594-1632) and his campaign in Germany during the Thirty Year’s War. Braun (p. 294) is very critical about the poem: "Schon Helander hat dieses Gedicht als ausserordentlich misslungen bewertet ("Frankly, I think its is very bad") und ich kann mich diesem Urteil nur aus vollem Herzen anschliessen". Ref. Braun (Ancilla Calliopeae, 2007) pp. 293-299 (ext. descr.). - Not in Oberlé. - 2. Howard, E. - The British princes. An heroick poem. London, T. Newcomb for H. Herringman, 1669. 8vo: [32]-198 pp. (final errata leaf missing; cut short shaving bottom line of imprint, top corner of title torn off with loss of a letter, some staining). Disbound, reddish edges. Only ed. of a "heroic" poem on the earliest British rulers (incl. Arthur) by the Restoration dramatist Howard (1634-1712), brother-in-law of John Dryden. It was immediately ridiculed by his contemporaries. Ref. ESTC R13966. - Wing H-2965. (6 vol.)