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Seventeenth century prize book & certificate from the Latin School at Leiden

EPICTETUS.
Enchiridium, unà cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula. Graecè & Latinè: ex recensione Abrahami Berkelii, cum ejusdem animadversionibus & notis: quibus acc. notae Wolfii, Casauboni, Caselii & aliorum, cum Graeca paraphrasi.

With richly designed frontispiece including the full-length portrait of Epictetus, and beautiful large folding allegorical plate, both etched by one of the most celebrated print makers of the late seventeenth century, Romeyn de Hooghe and dated '1670'.

With richly designed frontispiece including the full-length portrait of Epictetus, and beautiful large folding allegorical plate, both etched by one of the most celebrated print makers of the late seventeenth century, Romeyn de Hooghe and dated '1670'.

With richly designed frontispiece including the full-length portrait of Epictetus, and beautiful large folding allegorical plate, both etched by one of the most celebrated print makers of the late seventeenth century, Romeyn de Hooghe and dated '1670'.

With richly designed frontispiece including the full-length portrait of Epictetus, and beautiful large folding allegorical plate, both etched by one of the most celebrated print makers of the late seventeenth century, Romeyn de Hooghe and dated '1670'.



Leiden & Amsterdam, Ex Off. Daniel, Abraham & Adriaan à Gaasbeek, 1670. 8vo. Contemporary vellum with blind double ruling and corner pieces and a large gilt-stamped figure of Minerva, holding an escutcheon with the coat-of-arms of the city of Leyden, and underneath lettered "Lugd. Bata.", in centre on both covers. With richly designed frontispiece including the full-length portrait of Epictetus, and beautiful large folding allegorical plate, both etched by one of the most celebrated print makers of the late seventeenth century, Romeyn de Hooghe and dated '1670'. (24), 250, (2) pp.

Scholarly edition, printed in Greek and Latin, parallel in two columns, of the works of the stoic philosopher Epictetus, active in the second half of the first century. It is the first edition containing the fine engraved frontispiece and the beautiful large allegorical etching by Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708), measuring ca. 34 x 20 cm.
In a fine prize-binding of the Latin School at Leyden, with the engraved folding certificate for the prize winning pupil Adrianus Waker, pasted to the second fly-leaf, signed by J. vander Meer, B. Groenendijck, the famous Leiden professor of theology Abraham Heidanus (1597-1678) and Alb. Ruse, dated February 1676.

Fine copy, with the bookplate of Fintray House Library.- (Ties lacking).
Dibdin, Greek & Latin Classics, I, p. 515; Landwehr, Romeyn de Hooghe, 6; not in Hollstein; Spoelder, Prijsboeken, p. 628, 'Leiden, nr. 5, mentioning three prize-books dated 1738-1829); De Prijs is het Bewijs 72 (similar prize-binding, dated 1789). 

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Classical Antiquity  Greek & Latin  Leyden  Philosophy  Prize Binding  Romeyn de Hooghe 

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