[Rarebooks] FS: 2 works by Meursius on ancient Greece. Amsterdam: 1651-1675

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Meursius, Johannes (Johannes Van Meurs) MISCELLANEA LACONICA, sive Variarum Antiquitatum Laconicarum Libri IV. Nunc Primum Editi Cura Samuelis Pufendorfii. Amsterdam: Judocum Pluymer. 1651. 4to. (8),337,(23)pp. Index. Engraved vignette on title page. BOUND WITH: Meursius, Johannes. CRETA, CYPRUS, RHODUS, Sive de Nobilissimarum Harum Insularum Rebus & Antiquitatibus. Commentarii Postumi, nunc Primum Editi. Amsterdam: Abrahamum Wolfgangum. 1675. 3 parts in 1. (8),264;(2),175,(1);(2),124,(68)pp. Indices for all 3 parts bound at end. "Creta" with a divisional half-title. "Cyprus" and Rhodus" with their own dated title pages. The two works bound together in cont. vellum, large gilt arms on the front cover with the name "Carolus Welser, Patricius Augustanus Noribergensis" stamped on the outer border. The final part of the second work, dealing with ancient Rhodes, is annotated & extra-illustrated (2 added engraved plates, one a folding plate of the Colossus of Rhodes). There are 3 added blanks with manuscript notes, and additional manuscript notes in the text. A fine copy.	$1,500.00
Both works are posthumously printed first edition. Meursius died in 1639, leaving a number of unpublished manuscripts.
1. On the ancient history of Sparta. With a great deal of text in Greek. Edited by Samuel Pufendorf.
II. On the ancient world of Crete, Cyprus and Rhodes. With a great deal of text in Greek. Edited by Johannes Georgius Graevius.


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