Historia Gothorum, Vandalorum & Longobardorum: Ab Hugone Grotio…
GROTIUS, Hugo. Historia Gothorum, Vandalorum & Longobardorum: Ab Hugone Grotio…
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1655
Large 8vo. (186 x 120 mm.). Engraved frontispiece with title in cartouche, title with woodcut printer’s device, final leaf blank. Very faint minor dampstain to lower corner and gutter, mostly not touching text; slightly worse at end. A clean and well-margined, attractive copy. Contemporary vellum over paper boards, spine a little discoloured by dust, otherwise very clean and attractive. Late 18th c /early 19th c engraved armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to upper pastedown; partially erased early ink note above, early ownership inscription to title, partially illegible.
FIRST AND ONLY ELZEVIER EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH THE FRONTIS. Grotius was a Dutch ‘Renaissance man’ and a teenage prodigy, who wrote most of his major works in exile in France, having escaped imprisonment in Holland in a case of books that was regularly brought to him. As well as Grotius’ history of the various Germanic tribes, the volume includes various other works, such as Saint Isidore of Seville on the Goths and other Germanic tribes in Spain, edited by Isaac Voss, and Paul the Deacon on the Lombards.
W 1181; B 1578; BS 330; R 1201; Copinger 1992.
GROTIUS, Hugo. Historia Gothorum, Vandalorum & Longobardorum: Ab Hugone Grotio…
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1655
Large 8vo. (186 x 120 mm.). Engraved frontispiece with title in cartouche, title with woodcut printer’s device, final leaf blank. Very faint minor dampstain to lower corner and gutter, mostly not touching text; slightly worse at end. A clean and well-margined, attractive copy. Contemporary vellum over paper boards, spine a little discoloured by dust, otherwise very clean and attractive. Late 18th c /early 19th c engraved armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to upper pastedown; partially erased early ink note above, early ownership inscription to title, partially illegible.
FIRST AND ONLY ELZEVIER EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH THE FRONTIS. Grotius was a Dutch ‘Renaissance man’ and a teenage prodigy, who wrote most of his major works in exile in France, having escaped imprisonment in Holland in a case of books that was regularly brought to him. As well as Grotius’ history of the various Germanic tribes, the volume includes various other works, such as Saint Isidore of Seville on the Goths and other Germanic tribes in Spain, edited by Isaac Voss, and Paul the Deacon on the Lombards.
W 1181; B 1578; BS 330; R 1201; Copinger 1992.
GROTIUS, Hugo. Historia Gothorum, Vandalorum & Longobardorum: Ab Hugone Grotio…
Amsterdam: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1655
Large 8vo. (186 x 120 mm.). Engraved frontispiece with title in cartouche, title with woodcut printer’s device, final leaf blank. Very faint minor dampstain to lower corner and gutter, mostly not touching text; slightly worse at end. A clean and well-margined, attractive copy. Contemporary vellum over paper boards, spine a little discoloured by dust, otherwise very clean and attractive. Late 18th c /early 19th c engraved armorial bookplate of Lord Sandys to upper pastedown; partially erased early ink note above, early ownership inscription to title, partially illegible.
FIRST AND ONLY ELZEVIER EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, WITH THE FRONTIS. Grotius was a Dutch ‘Renaissance man’ and a teenage prodigy, who wrote most of his major works in exile in France, having escaped imprisonment in Holland in a case of books that was regularly brought to him. As well as Grotius’ history of the various Germanic tribes, the volume includes various other works, such as Saint Isidore of Seville on the Goths and other Germanic tribes in Spain, edited by Isaac Voss, and Paul the Deacon on the Lombards.
W 1181; B 1578; BS 330; R 1201; Copinger 1992.