Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Epistolarum Selectarum III. Centuriae

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Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Epistolarum Selectarum III. Centuriae. Antwerp: Plantin & Moretus, 1601.
Quarto, divisional title pages throughout, printer's devices on each, browning in text, ex libris Michael Vagliani, contemporary parchment over boards, spine wormed.
Lipsius collected and published more than 4,300 letters to approximately 700 correspondents. He communicated with Grotius, Ortelius, Montaigne, Sir Philip Sidney, Joseph Scaliger, and many others; his contact list was a who's who of late sixteenth century western humanism.
Estimate $400-600

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