Author: Pierre Francois Sweerts
Title: Epitaphia Ioco-Seria, Latina, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Lusitanica, Belgica
Description: Bernardum Gaultheri, 1623. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full vellum. 351p. 3 7/8" x 6 1/4". Book in very good condition. General shelf wear and soiling in accordance with age. Title still visible on spine. Interior remarkably clean and tight. Book in very good condition. A multilingual collection of humorous and serious epitaphs. Texts in Latin and a variety of early forms of modern European languages. The subtitle cribs from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, reading roughly: "With much wisdom comes much indignation. I looked and looked and indeed everything under the sun is vanity and vexation and infinite foolishness. The learned die just like the foolish. It would be better to know that there is nothing in this life but to rejoice and do good. .
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Title: Epitaphia Ioco-Seria, Latina, Gallica, Italica, Hispanica, Lusitanica, Belgica
Description: Bernardum Gaultheri, 1623. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full vellum. 351p. 3 7/8" x 6 1/4". Book in very good condition. General shelf wear and soiling in accordance with age. Title still visible on spine. Interior remarkably clean and tight. Book in very good condition. A multilingual collection of humorous and serious epitaphs. Texts in Latin and a variety of early forms of modern European languages. The subtitle cribs from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, reading roughly: "With much wisdom comes much indignation. I looked and looked and indeed everything under the sun is vanity and vexation and infinite foolishness. The learned die just like the foolish. It would be better to know that there is nothing in this life but to rejoice and do good. .
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Price: US$ 400.00 Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd.
- Book number: 141473
- Book number: 141473