Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) Sapientiae et Litterarum Antistitis Fama Postuma

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Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606)Sapientiae et Litterarum Antistitis Fama Postuma. Antwerp: Plantin & Moretus, 1629.
Quarto, engraved frontispiece portrait opposite the title, contents clean, in the contemporary gilt-tooled armorial binding of one of three Sir Thomas Shirley's, with the Turk's head and the shield, but without the little boar, with his signature on the title, one panel missing at the foot of the spine, abraded, worn at the corners, with loss of leather.
Together with: Politicorum sive Civilis Doctrinae Libri Sex. Antwerp: Plantin, 1599.
Quarto, woodcut printer's device on separate leaf following the colophon, browned, in later half green textured cloth.
Estimate $250-350

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