1677 HUMOROUS ESSAYS Admiranda Rerum Admirabilium Encomia antique

Admiranda Rerum Admirabilium Encomia. Sive Diserta & Amoena Pallas Disserens seria sub ludicra specie. Hoc est, Dissertationem Ludicarum Nec non Amoenitatum Scriptores Varii.



Nijmegen, 1677

engraved pictorial and printed titles

8 plates

contains 23 humorous essays by such formidable figures as Erycius Puteanus, Justus Lipsius "Laus Elephantis", Caspar Barlaeus, Jerome Cardan "Podagrae" [gout], Jacobus Gutherius, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Martinus Schoockius ["In praise of smoke/smoking"], Johannis Passeratius "Asini" ["In praise of the donkey"], Pirkheimer, Phillip Melancthon "Formice" ["In praise of the ant"], Daniel Heinsius "Laus Pediculi" ["In praise of the louse"], Conrad Goddaeus ["In praise of the owl"], etc. 


calf binding with panelled spine,

Size 3 1/4 by 5"

Very good condition of binding, foxing and browning of the pages


Text in Latin



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