Author: [Anon]:

Title: Dissertationum Ludicrarum et Amoenitatum Scriptores Varii.

Publication: Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: apud Franciscum Hegerum, 1644.

Description: 12mo., pp.[viii], 648, 651-666. Usual mispagination. Engraved title-page, woodcut endpiecesand initials. Text in Latin with some Greek. Title-page repaired at bottom edge and loosening, light dampstaining near gutter, occasional light spotting. Contemporary vellum, title inked to spine, edges sprinkled red and blue. Vellum a little yellowed with some smudgy marks, one snapped cord at upper hinge but holding firm, very good. Large bookplate of Brian S. Donaghey to front pastedown. To ffep, ownership inscription of Percy Lousada of Merton College, Oxford, dated 1843.

First published in 1623 as 'Argumentorum Ludicrorum et Amoenitatum', this collection of entertaining writings by 18 authors includes swimming, pies and donkeys among its subjects.

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Reference Number: [54657]

Price: £275

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