Jacobi Balde e Societate Iesu Sylvae lyricae.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Balde, Jakob, 1604-1668
Format: Book
Language:Latin
Created: Coloniae Vbiorum [Cologne, Germany] : Apud Jodocum Kalcovium, 1646.
Edition:Editio secunda, auctior et emendatior.
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Item Description:Fictitious imprint. Printing is attributed to Joan Blaeu of Amsterdam (cf. Weller, E. Die falschen und fingierten Druckorte, v. 1, p. 263, also p. vii) and to Louis Elzevier of Amsterdam (cf. Willems, A. Les Elzevier, no. 1035).
Signatures: *⁴ a-q¹² r⁸.
Engraved title page features the Muse of poetry seated in a forest, holding a caduceus, and to her right, a seated male figure wearing a winged cap (Mercury?), playing bagpipes.
Tail-pieces; initials.
Leaves a4, b10, and q3 missigned a5, b5, and p3, respectively.
Verso of t.p. and pages [74] and [110] are blank.
Pages [380], [381], and [384] are misnumbered 379, 380, and 383, respectively (i.e., the page number 379 is used twice and the number 381 is omitted).
Physical Description:[4], 390, [2] p. ; 14 cm. (12mo)
Place of Publication:Netherlands -- Amsterdam.
Germany -- Cologne.