Maecenas, sive de C. Cilnii Maecenatis vita, moribus & rebus gestis: liber singularis.
Book Description
Small 4to. (193 x 155mm), pp. [xii], 186, [viii], 11, [ix], including errata leaf usually lacking. Engraved portrait vignette to title-page, woodcut initials and head-pieces, small numismatic illustration in text. Sporadic light foxing a little heavier to a few leaves. Very neat modern binding, tan quarter calf, raised bands and red morocco gilt title label to spine, marbled boards, edges sprinkled red, endpapers renewed. Very slight shelf wear, a very good copy.
Dealer Notes
An account of the early life of Gaius Cilnius Maecenas (68 BC–8 BC) the famous patron of letters (notably to the new generation of Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil), by the German physician and humanist Johann Heinrich Meibom (1590-1655). This copy includes the final errata leaf which, as Willems notes, appears to have been added afterwards and is missing in most examples.
Schweiger II, 588; Willems 731
Schweiger II, 588; Willems 731
Author
Meibom, Johann Heinrich:
Date
1653
Publisher
Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Johannem & Danielem Elsevier,
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