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Book Condition: Used Good
Seller: Frits Knuf Antiquarian Books

France
About Item: 't Goy: Hes & De Graaf, 2003. Book. Good. Binding see description. Orig. cloth binding. 792 pp. Ills. (Bibliotheca Bibliographica Neerlandica, 39). With CD-Rom containing the images of the title-pages. From the publisher : During the seventeenth century, Holland s Golden Age, printing and publishing became a flourishing industry. In Leiden, where the presence of a university contributed to that success, Joannes Maire built up, in the course of more than fifty years, a list of at least 527 titles, especially in the fields of medicine, theology and classical philology. Although he is nowadays chiefly remembered as the original publisher of René Descartes's Discours de la methode (1637), his contemporaries knew him better from his numerous editions of works of Desiderius Erasmus. Maire's cooperation in his earlier years as a publisher with the Raphelengii and Thomas Erpenius, professor of Oriental languages in Leiden, and the availability of his books at the fairs of Frankfurt and… Read More
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