1672 ROMAN FUNERALS ILLUSTRATED vellum bound antique DE FUNERIBUS ROMANORUM

DE FUNERIBUS ROMANORUM [...].

NITIDISSIMIS FIGURIS ILLUSTRATI. ACCESSIT ET FUNUS PARASITICUM NICOLAI RIGALTII.

[FUNERALS OF THE ROMANS]

by KIRCHMANN, Johann

Lugduni Batavorum; 1672


3 parts in 1 volume

Size 3 by 5 3/4"

 [48 incl. front.]-641 [= 649]-[45]-[2 bl.], [8]-64, 24 pp.; 4 plates



 - Important early study of Roman funerals by the German scholar Kirchmann (1575-1643).

Illustrated with a frontispiece and 4 folding plates by Romeyn De Hooghe.

The 2nd part is the funeral oration pronounced by Kirchmann for Paul Merula (1558-1607), Dutch jurist and geographer.
The 3rd is a satire on corpse parasites by the French classical scholar and librarian Nicolas Rigault (1577-1654).



Original vellum, manuscript title on the spine spine.

Some marginal faded dampstains

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