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N Bibliotheca Heinsiana sive Catalogus Librorum Quos magno studio & sumptu dum viveret collegit vir illustris Nicolaus Heinsius Dan fil [Heinsius, N.]. Bibliotheca Heinsiana sive Catalogus Librorum, Quos, magno studio, & sumptu, dum viveret, collegit vir illustris Nicolaus Heinsius, Dan. fil. Leyden, J. de Vivie, in , (,(; 286p., contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo. - Sl. yellowed; occas. trifle foxed; old ticket on upper pastedown; with two armorial bookplates of the Clayton family: "John Clayton" ( town clerk of Newcastle upon Tyne?) on upper pastedown and "Nathaniel Clayton" (?-?, John's father and also town clerk?) on lower pastedown. = Rare. Edition without date of the sale, portrait and preface; "Non Solus" printer's mark. Willems note; Berghman Rahir Copinger Blogie p. (title-p. with 'sumptu' instead of 'sumtu'); Breslauer/ Folter "The sale catalogue of the polymath library of Nicolaus Heinsius, eminent Dutch classical scholar, Neo-Latin poet, and diplomatist, containing over It was immediately recognized as having more than ephemeral value (...) It became one of the most frequently consulted catalogues of its kind." Willems "La bibliothèque de Heinsius contenait la plus riche collection de livres qu'un particulier eût formée jusqu'alors en Europe pour l'étude de l'antiquité classique. La vente produisit somme énorme pour le temps." "The reputation of Heinsius' library was so great, that Graevius used the sale-catalogue as a textbook for his lectures on Bibliography at Utrecht." (Pollard/ Ehrman p.. A large part of the collection is now in the Bodleian Library, a smaller part is preserved at the Leyden University library. Call for price