PETRONIUS, J. (=J. DAVID). Kettersche spinnecoppe waer in, deur de natuere der spinnecoppe, claerlijck bewesen wort, hoe deghelijck en orboorlijck een saecke dat een ketter is, en kettersche voere. 2e ed. Bruss., R. Velpius, 1598. (4), 398 (= 368), (16) pp. W. woodcut vignet on title repeated as headpiece (a cobweb) & engr. plate with Dutch quatrain bound after title. 12°. Later full vellum. (New endpapers, margins cut a bit shortly in places, sl. browned).
Second (= third) edition of a vehement anti-Calvinist treatise by the Flemish Jesuit Jan David (1543-1613), first published in Brussels 1595 (enl. 1596). This was the first work of a prolific Dutch and Latin writer, later famous for his religious emblem books. Printed in gothic type. - Rare. Machiels D50; Adams P860. Other editions in Belg. Typ. & Bibl. Belg.€ 360