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LIPSIUS, Justus. De amphitheatro liber . Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1589. 4°, 2 parts. One folding woodcut plate and 3 folding etched plates. Title and divisional title with Plantin's device, 4 etched illustrations, three full-page (Woodcut plate cleanly but severely torn and repaired, some gatherings browned, final leaves waterstained.) Adams L766 [ Bound with three other works by Lipsius as follows :] Saturnalium sermonum libri duo, qui de gladiatoribus. Editio ultima . Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1588. 4°. 15 etched plates (? only, of 16) attributed to Pieter van der Borcht comprising 3 large folding plates (? of 4) and 12 plates lettered A-M. Title device. (Larger folding plates repaired on verso, generally dampstained and rather browned, L1 with short tear at lower margin.) [ And :] Epistolica Institutio. Adiunctum est Demetrii Phalerei eiusdem argumenti scriptum . Leyden: ex officina Plantiniana, apud Francescum Raphelengium, 1691. 4°. Plantin device to title. [ And :] Ad Iac. Monavium epistola . Antwerp: ex officina Plantiniana, apud Viduam, & Ioannem Moretum, 1592. 4°. Title device. large woodcut initials and typographical ornaments. Adams L757. Together 4 works in one volume. Contemporary vellum, spine titled in manuscript. Provenance : First title with ownership inscriptions of J. A. Vander Baren, 1635, and the Carmelite Convent, Brussels. Presentation inscription from D. A. J. Vander Baren on front free endpaper, dated 1709. With another Plantin quarto edition of De Amphitheatro liber (Antwerp, 1604). (2)