Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus; Catullus, Caius Valerius; Tibullus Albius; Propertius, Sextus Aurelius; Juvenalis, Junus; Persius Flaccus, Aulus
Title: [Rare book in Latin, 1618] L. Annaei Senecae et aliorum, Tragoediae Serio emendatae. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1618 [bound with] [Opera] Catullus Tibullus Propertius. Cum C. Galli fragmentis serio castigati. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1619 [and with] Junii Juvenalis et Alvi Persii Flacci, Satyrae. Ex doct. viror. emendatione. Amsterdam, Willem Jansz. Blaeu, 1619.
Description: Contemporary parchment binding. Front and back with blind tooling frame and folded edges. 115 x 60 mm, 24º: pi1 A-S#8, [2] 287 [1] pp.; (ad 2:) A-P#8, 240 pp.; (ad 3:) A-G#8 H#2, 126 pp. All three copies with engraved title page with the printer’s mark of Blaeu. Good copy.Three texts by Latin poets that were published in the same year. Wiillem Janzs. Blaeu, an Amsterdam bookseller and cartographer, began in 1619 with publishing classical texts in small format and so he did this before Elzevier began to do this, although he then still went under the name of Willem Jansz. The works of these three lyrical Latin poets Catullus, Tibullus and Propertius were often published together. Rare copy. ZKL0071

Keywords: Early printings|Latin|Mythology