DEMETRIUS, Andreas and Johannes POLYANDER (translator).
Les actes memorables des Grecs. Contenant leurs haults & vaillans exploits...
Dordrecht, [published by Isaac Jansz. Canin and printed by Guillaume Guillemot] for Andreas Demetrius, 1602. 8vo. With a large woodcut printer's device on the title-page and with folding engraved map of ancient Greece, signed Ioan: Doetechomius Jr, inserted before p. 1, woodcut decorated initials and woodcut manicules in the margins. Contemporary gold-tooled overlapping vellum, sewn on 4 vellum tapes laced through the joints, with the manuscript title on the spine and the gold-tooled armorial supralibros of the Signet Library as a centre-piece on both boards. [1], [1 blank], [14], 749, [1 blank] [25], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank] pp.
€ 1,600
First French edition, translated by J. Polyander à Kerckhove of Der Griecken opganck ende onderganck, by Andreas Demetrius, first published at Dordrecht in 1599. The author, Andreas Demetrius, was a Protestant minister at Antwerp as early as 1568. After the fall of the city, in 1585, he first went to Frankfurt, and from 1594 he was minister of the Reformed Church at Dordrecht, where he was highly respected for his religious moderation and his humanist contribution to education. He died in 1607. From the privilege at the end, both by Henri, the King of France, and by the Dutch States General, we learn the name of the publisher and printer, respectively Isaac Jansz. Canin and Guillaume Guillemot.
The binding is somewhat browned and stained, later endpapers, slightly browned throughout. Otherwise in good condition. Simoni M 70; NUC lists 1 copy; STCN 139294384 (4 copies).
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