75/2753 [Classical antiquity and neolatinism]. Pignoria, L. De servis et eorum apud veteres ministeriis, Commentarius. In quo familia, tum urbana, tum rustica, ordine producitur & illustratur. Augsb., n.publ., 1613, 1st ed., (12),280,(10)p., woodcut printer's mark, 6 full-p. woodcut ills. and 21 text ills., contemp. calf w. blindst. spine, 4to.

- Lacks first free endpaper; occas. cut short, affecting ills. in lower margin. Corners rubbed; backstrip whitish.

= Provenance: Stephanus Johannis Stephanius (1599-1650), Danish historian and philologist. With manuscript signed dedication by Stephanius to the secretary/ chancellor Axelius Juel on title-p.: "Virtute juxta ac prosapia Nobilissimo Viro, Domino Axelio Juel, Maecenati et fautori gratiosissimo hunc librum observantiae testandae ergo dono dedi. Stephanus Johannis Stephanius." The rare first edition of this important work on slavery in antiquity. Also deals with music and musical instruments of classical antiquity. Krivatsy 8979; RISM B VI2 654; Cicognara 1759; Fetis VII, p.57. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXXIX.