Author: Cluveri,Phillippi [1580-1623]
Title: COMMENTARIUS DE TRIBUS RHENI Alveis et ostiis,item de quinque populis quondam accolis, scilicet de Toxandris, Bat[avis], Caninef[ati]bus, Fri[sii]s ac M[arsa]cis : opus novum ex veteri historia... collectum / adjectae sunt tres tabulae geographicae.
Description: Lugduni Batavorum, Joannem Balduinum; impensis Ludovici Elzeviri 1611 copperplate folding Map + 2 full pge maps + pictorial colophon woodcut eagle holding arrows & ribbon with Concordia Res Parvae Rescu 1595 . 5to vellum spined pastepaper boards [vellum reused from earlier/corners sl rubbed] titlepage +[5p=dedication] + [9p= poems +to reader +errata +contents] + 323pp +[9pp=index] + colophon leaf + [2p=blank] The titlepage mounted with loss of a few letters on 3 lines [see bracketed letters on title above] Test in latin but quite some Greek ptinyiny also. There are various fonts used in the text including black letter, italic etc. Also includes marginal printed side notes + 3 old ink marginal notes in latin added by a previous owner.Tipped into endpaper a sheet with french notes by a previour owner about Cluvier's life. Willems Elzevir p23 no.64

Keywords: early geography history River Rhine German peoples


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