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LEIDEN -- (MEURSIUS, J.). Illustrium Hollandiae & Westfrisiae ordinum Alma Academia Leidensis. Leiden, J. Marcius & J. à Coster, 1614. (28) lvs, 1-16 pp, (4 lvs), 17-231 pp. W. ti.-engr., lge. fold. plate of the academic procession printed on 2 conjoined lvs, 4 text-engrs. dep. academy building, botanical garden, library and anatomical theatre, & 54 fine engr. portrs. (& six empty medallions) in text. 4°. 19th c. hcl. w. marbled paper sides. (Margins cropped (but ample), small libr. stamp on ti.-p., small rep. to fold. procession plate, some ink stains in places, ms index of the portrayed at end).
Important work on the founding years of Leiden University, published 40 years after the founding of the university. Extended version of '(MEURSIUS, J.) Illustris academia Lugd-Batava (…)', 1613. Among those portrayed are famous men like Grotius, Dousa, Scaliger, Clusius, Dodonaeus, etc. - Brunet III, 1684; Willems 237 note; Rahir 1802; Van Someren I, 148; Haitsma Mulier/Van der Lem, 334k (ed. 1625).€ 300
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