Lot 08013

MEURSIUS JOHANNES Van (1579-1639), 4 books in one volume, 1619-1624:

ATHENAE ATTICAE. Sive, de praecipuis Athenarum antiquitatibus libri III. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), apud Commelinos Frattes, 1624, p. [8],184,[24] Index / 12 f. – PANATHENAEA. Sive, de Minervae illo gemino festo, liber singularis. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), ex officina Elzeviriana, 1619, p. [8],48 / CECROPIA. Sive de Athenarum arce, & ejusdem antiquitatibus, liber singularis. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), ex officina Elzeviriana, 1622, [8],93,[13] / ELEUSINIA. Sive, de Cereris Eleusinae sacro, ac festo. Liber singularis. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), ex officina Elzeviriana, 1619, p. [16],104 / FORUNA ATTICA. Sive, de Athenarum origine, incremento, magnitudine, potentia, gloria, vario statu, decremento, & occasu. Liber singularis. Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden), apud Godefridum Basson, 1622, [8],114,[14] Index.

J. van Meurs was professor of Greek and history at Leiden, with extensive studies on Athenean democracy, history, state, laws and customs.”Most authors have agreed in extolling the ingenuity, learning, and merit of Meursius: he excelled particularly in the knowledge of Greek language and antiquities; and applied himself with such indefatigable pains to correct, explain, translate, and publish many works of the ancients..” [Chalmers].

Contemporary full calf binding with a crack on its back; linear embossed boards, four raised bands on spine with gilt title and onraments (worn). Red edges, printers engraved mark on the title pages, some occasional light spotting. Willems 161, 201, 159, not in Brunet. Good copy.