CLASSICS. SAMMELBAND. PERSIUS - Auli Persi Flacci Satyricorum Celeberrimi gravissimi, &difficillimi Satyrae VI. Ita illustrata ut e quovis facile intelligi possimi, commentariis Eilhardi Lubini.

Amstelredami Apud Zachariam Heyns Bibliopolam 1595. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 155 x 96 mms., pp. [viii], 248. BOUND WITH: Nicodemi Frischlini, in A. Persii Flacci Satyras, eruditae et elegantes Paraphrases, quae vice Commentarii esse possunt. Opus Longe Utilissimum, tum Scholis, tum Academiss. Cum Gratia et Priviletio Impressum Francofortiad Moenum, per Ioannem Spies. 1587. 8vo, 155 x 96 mms., pp. [xvi], [142], including final colophon leaf. BOUND WITH: Q. Sept. Florentis Christiani Andromacha Euripdea Tragoedia: Com Notatis ad ipsam Graecam fbulam. Lugduni Batavorum, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Franciscum Raphelengium, 1594. 8vo, 155 x 96 mms., pp. [xvi], 70 [71 -76 blank]. 3 volumes in 1, contemporary vellum (slightly soiled). The edition of Persius is by the German scholar Eilhard Lubinus (1565 - 1621) and was published in the same year that he was appointed professor of poetry at University of Rostock. The German philologist Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (1547 – 1590) published numerous editions of the classics, though the best-known ones are editions of Virgil. Arrested for libel and imprisoned in the fortress of Hohenurach, near Reutlingen, he killed himself in a fall while trying to escape from his cell. Florent Chrestien, also known as Quintus Septimius Florens Christianus (1541 - 1596), a French physician and author of texts on physiology, also published editions of the classics, particularly satires.