Batavia, in qua praeter gentis & insulae antiquitatem, originem, decora, mores, aliaque ad eam historiam pertinentia, declaratur [...].

JUNIUS, Hadrianus

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Dordrecht, (J. Braat for) V. Caimax, 1652

12mo: 674 (of 676, f. *2 with engr. portrait missing)-[6] pp. (some unobtrusive soiling).

Contemp. overl. vellum (soiled). Good copy.

Second edition of this humanist history of the Netherlands in Roman Antiquity and Middle Ages (1st Leiden 1588), by the physician and first Leiden professor H. Junius (1511-1575). It contains one of the earliest references to Laurens Coster and the invention of printing, and the first use of the word "incunable". Woodcut mark on title. Woodcuts in text (coins etc.).
Ref. Haitsma Mulier/vdLem 263a. - STCN (i.a. BL).
Prov. "Aumoniers du Travail, Scolasticat" (libr. tickets on front cover and title).