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Elegiarum Libri IV / Ed. door Pieter Burman Junior & Laurens van Zanten

Utrecht
Barth. Wild
1780

€140 - €200

4to, [xxiv], 990, [2] pp. Contemporary gilt-ruled vellum prize-binding (for a pupil of the Latin school), large gilt stamp with arms of The Hague on covers. It represents Pallas Athena, harnessed and helmeted, accompanied by her owl and with a lance in her right hand and a shield in her left. The Hague stork is shown on the shield (binding slightly soiled)

Ref. Storm van Leeuwen, Dutch decorated Bookbinding in the 18th c., vol. IIA, p. 21 ""Until c. 1795 Hague prize bindings were made practically without exception in vellum

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