Lot no. 46
MEURSIUS (Johannes van Meurs, known as). Creta, Cyprus, Rhodus, sive de nobilissimarum harum insularum rebus et antiquitatibus. Amsterdam, Abraham Wolfgang, 1675. 3 parts in one small volume in-4, brown calf, spine ornate, spotted edges (Binding of the period). First edition, published posthumously by Johann Georg Grævius, who dedicated it to Charles XI of Sweden. The sections on Cyprus and Rhodes have separate titles. Handwritten annotations in Hebrew, Latin and French in the margins of the first chapters. Ex-libris: Fargeon, conseiller à la Cour royale de Nîmes. Covers missing, brown spots. Blackmer, no. 1121.
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