[Rarebooks] FS: Gorlaeus' revised work on ancient engraved gems & rings. Leyden: 1695

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Gorlaeus, Abraham. DACTYLIOTHECAE, Seu Annulorum Sigillarium... cum 
Explicationibus Jacobi Gronovii. Leyden: Petrus Vander Aa. 1695. 4to. 2 volumes in 1, 
each with its own title page printed in red & black. (18)pp. of letterpress 
preliminaries plus 109 copper engraved plates with descriptive text; 
(2),28,(16),16pp. of preliminaries plus 173 copper engraved plates with descriptive text, 
plus (5)-64,32pp. of text at back. Additionally, two very fine added engraved 
titles, an engraved portrait of Gorlaeus and an engraved folded portrait of 
Gronovius. Cont. blind tooled vellum, nicely rebacked in vellum, with black 
morocco spine label. Modern endpapers. Some old light soiling, but overall a very 
nice copy.     $2,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
This is the greatly revised edition by Gronov, after the original edition of 
1601 (Gorlaeus died in 1609). The 1695 edition contains a total of 282 plates 
illustrating 898 ancient rings and engraved gems, whereas the 1601 edition 
contains a total of 138 plates, illustrating 344 rings and engraved gems. The 
text contains laudatory poems by Hugo Grotius and Daniel Heinsius and at the back 
of Volume II is the long poem on gemstones by Marbod. See Sinkankas, GEMOLOGY 
#2472 for a long description. This copy with its sections of text in a 
different order, but perfectly complete.

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