Poemata, collecta & magnam partem nunc primum edita à fratre Guilielmo Grotio.
Leiden, Andr. Clouquius, 1617.
8vo. (24), 548, (2) pp. With engr. t. p. Contemp. vellum with ms. title to spine.
$2,791.00
Rare first edition of the collected poetic works of the great Dutch humanist, statesman, and philosopher Hugo Grotius. "Le Poemata de Grotius furent mis à l'Index le 26 mars 1626" (Ter Meulen).
With the frequently lacking errata leaf. Immaculate copy from the library of the Regensburg jurist Sebastian Seelmann, a member of Harsdörffer's "Pegnesian Order of Flowers" since 1668 (under the name of "Silvius").
References
Ter Meulen/Diermanse 1. Hilgers (Index librorum prohibitorum) 422.