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Guazzo, Stefano. De civili conversatione libri quatuor. Accuratius nunc Latine redditi ab Henrico Salmuth. Editio postrema. Amberg, M. Forster, 1598. 12 leaves, 730 pp. 13.5 x 8 cm. Contemporary leather binding with gilt-stamped fillets on spine and covers (heavily bumped and with cover defects, especially over the upper corners). Third Latin edition, the second Amberg edition. - VD16 G3898. - One of the most important sources on etiquette between the Renaissance and Baroque, first published in Italian in 1574. - Tiny note on the title page "Abrahamg Gölnitius possidet me Anno 1612", probably the Gdansk travel writer Abraham Göllnitz, whose life dates are unknown. Göllnitz published several geographical and pedagogical works between 1631 and 1643, and in 1642 he was secretary to the Danish King Christian IV (the copy bears no bookplate, but comes from the Juel family library on Valdemars Slot). The endpapers bear annotations in an equally fine hand, including "Guazzus nobilissimorum doctissimus, doctissimorum nobilissimus ...". Furthermore, pages 556-589 have underlining and several neat marginalia in pen, presumably all in Göllnitz's hand. - Waterstaining almost throughout, worming in places with loss of letters, preliminaries loose and stained in the binding, (old repaired tear on leaf 9). VAT: *
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Guazzo, Stefano. De civili conversatione libri quatuor. Accuratius nunc Latine redditi ab Henrico Salmuth. Editio postrema. Amberg, M. Forster, 1598. 12 leaves, 730 pp. 13.5 x 8 cm. Contemporary leather binding with gilt-stamped fillets on spine and covers (heavily bumped and with cover defects, especially over the upper corners). Third Latin edition, the second Amberg edition. - VD16 G3898. - One of the most important sources on etiquette between the Renaissance and Baroque, first published in Italian in 1574. - Tiny note on the title page "Abrahamg Gölnitius possidet me Anno 1612", probably the Gdansk travel writer Abraham Göllnitz, whose life dates are unknown. Göllnitz published several geographical and pedagogical works between 1631 and 1643, and in 1642 he was secretary to the Danish King Christian IV (the copy bears no bookplate, but comes from the Juel family library on Valdemars Slot). The endpapers bear annotations in an equally fine hand, including "Guazzus nobilissimorum doctissimus, doctissimorum nobilissimus ...". Furthermore, pages 556-589 have underlining and several neat marginalia in pen, presumably all in Göllnitz's hand. - Waterstaining almost throughout, worming in places with loss of letters, preliminaries loose and stained in the binding, (old repaired tear on leaf 9). VAT: *
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