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PUTEANUS, Erycius

Aenigma regium infantiam populi R(omani) complectens, imaginibus Raph. Sadeleri illustratum
Ingolstadt
W. Eder for R. Sadeler (München)
1623
€2.000 - €2.400

12mo, [2]-138 [= 140]-[2] pp. Engr. title, 7 engr. portraits, engr. mark (at end). Bound with - IDEM, De cometa anni M.DC.XVIII. nono mundi spectaculo libri duo. Paradoxologia. Cologne, C. Butgen, 1619. 12mo, 167-[1] pp. Woodcut mark on title. Marginal wormholes in the last lvs. 18th-c. quarter leather, green coloured covers, gilt spine, red edges, blue marker (front joint starting to split, tail def.). Good copy (toned)

"1. Only ed. of a treatise on the old Roman kings, with in addition (pp. 111-138) ""Leges regiae et leges X.virales, I. Lipsii opera studiose collectae"" (= Lipsius' ed. of the oldest Roman legislation). 2. Corrected Cologne repr. of the Leuven 1619 ed. of Puteanus' essay on the spectacular Comet of December 1618 (= C/1618 W1), also described by Kepler and Gassendi. Ref. 1: Bibl. Belg. IV:792 P-232. - VD17 23:280010U. 2: Bibl. Belg. IV:788 P-219. - VD17 23:279752K"