75/2743 [Classical antiquity and neolatinism]. Lipsius, J. Saturnalium sermonum libri duo, qui de gladiatoribus. Antw., C. Plantijn, 1585, 2nd rev. ed., (8),175,(8)p., engr. printer's mark on title, 3 (of 4) fold. etched plates and 12 full-p. etched. ills. by ?, contemp. calf. - BOUND WITH: Idem. De Amphitheatro. Ibid., idem, 1585, 2 parts in 1 vol., 76,(6),83-104p., 4 fold. etched plates and 3 ills. - AND BOUND WITH: Idem. De Constantia. Ibid., idem, 1585, new rev. ed., (16),112,(13)p.

- First work lacks 1 plate; lvs. (sl.) browned; one plate w. tear on fold; a few quires w. sm. waterstain in outer margin; last part waterstain in lower outer corner; second work lacks last 2 lvs; w. extensive manuscript owner's entry by "M Bondet" (dated 1624).

= Ad 1 The 2nd Plantin edition (first 1582) of this treatise on gladiators. Voet 1557; Labore et Constantia 292; Bibl. Belgica III, I, 502; Thimm p.167 (ed. 1604); Pardoel 1536; Lipperheide Be 8; Ad 2: Voet 1532B. One of the plates (the ruinous amphitheatre at Doue?) in De Amphiteatro signed "Laevinus F. An.1584"; Ad 3: Voet 1535A bis.