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74 2506 Classical antiquity and neolatinism Guevara A de 74 2506 Classical antiquity and neolatinism Guevara A de 74/2506 [Classical antiquity and neolatinism]. Guevara, A. de. T' gulden Boeck, Van het leven ende Seynd-brieven van den welsprekenden Orateur ende keyser Marcus Aurelius inde welke veel schoone leeringhen ende sententien begrepen sijn seer nut ende beguaem allen menschen. Amst. J.P. Paets, 1612, 226,(2)lvs., letterpress title-p. within (nice) woodcut border decoration, woodcut head-, tailpieces and initials, contemp. overlapping vellum, sm. 8vo. - Contemp. owner's entries on verso title-p. and lower pastedown; upper hinge sl. widening; sl. browned. Vellum stained and dam. = Rare edition of Guevara's popular and partly fictional biography of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, in which Guevara claims to have discovered an ancient manuscript containing 20 letters written by Aurelius, which he published in this book. In reality, he invented them and used them as a didactic and literary device. With the 18th cent. engr. bookplate of "Pertri Ludovici Danes", author and rector of the University of Leuven, on upper pastedown. Not in Bibl. Belg. and Simoni.