Beschreibung:

CLENARDUS, N. Epistolarum ll. II. Quorum posterior iam primum in lucem prodit. Antw., C. Plantinus, 1566. 258, (4) pp. Mod. antique style blind tooled cf. w. red label. (Stamp on ti. & on vº last leaf, last blank leaf lacks, slightly browned, but a fine copy). First edition of Clenardus's collected letters. After a fragmentary publication of his letters in 1546 concerned with the teaching of Latin, a first collection of 14 letters was published by Latomus the younger in 1550. Plantin's 1566 edition brings the collection to completeness with 26 new letters unearthed in Granada and Salamanca by the editor, Carolius Clusius. They are printed with a separate title-page p. 105ff. - Voet, 996; Tiele, 60; Adams, C-2139; Smitskamp, PO, 10d, 248.