Tabulae totius dialectices, aliorum artium instrumenti praecepta utilissima breuiter complectentes [...].

VALERIUS, Cornelius

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Cologne, "Ad intersignium Monocerotis" (= J. Gymnich III), 1573

8vo: [88] ff. + folding table (toned, some dampstaining, part of table loose but present, title margin sl. frayed, blank bottom margin A3 cut off, minor worming in blank bottom margin of final ff.).

Contemp. limp overl. vellum, 1 vellum tie preserved (loosening, spine gone). Complete copy.

Extremely rare revised ed. (2nd recorded copy?) Cologne school ed. of the rhetoric textbook of the Leuven Trilingue professor C. Valerius (1512-1578). The 1574 re-issue is also known in a single copy (VD16 ZV28602). Woodcut mark on title; woodcut ill. on I6v. Printed in italics.
Ref. VD16 ZV29130 (1: Freiburg). - Not in Adams etc.
Prov. Old ms. entry on title. - Numerous reader’s marks at beginning. - Libr. stamp.