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Virgil translated by the Antwerp rhetorician Cornelis van Ghistele
VIRGIL.De twaelf boecken Aeneas, ghenaemt int Latijn Aeneidos: In Duytsche talen door Cornelis van Ghistele Rhetorijckelijc overghezet: plaisant ende weerdich om lesen.   Rotterdam, Jan van Waesberghe, 1609. Small 8vo. Contemporary vellum. With woodcut portrait of Virgil on title and 12 woodcut illustrations in text, one to each book. 264, (3, 1 blank) lvs. Popular Dutch translation in verse by the Antwerp rhetorician, Cornelis van Ghistele, of Virgil's "Aeneas", first published at Antwerp in 1556. Jan van Waesberghe had already published an edition at Antwerp in 1589, and fleeing Antwerp for the Spaniards he republished the book twice at Rotterdam, in 1599 and our edition in 1609. The book is nicely illustrated with popular woodcuts, and printed in Gothic type with legenda in a small Roman type in the margins. Good copy.- (Paper title-label on spine; some ms. old ownership's entries on first blank; occasionally sl. waterst.).
Geerebaert CXLIII, B c. Simoni V 197; not in NUC.
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