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Fac et Spera: Joannes Maire, Publisher, Printer and Bookseller in Leiden, 1603-1657
During the seventeenth century, Holland's Golden Age, printing and publishing became a flourishing industry. In Leiden, where the presence of a university contributed to that success, Joannes Maire built up, in the course of more than fifty years, a list of at least 527 titles, especially in the fields of medicine, theology and classical philology. Although he is nowadays chiefly remembered as the original publisher of René Descartes's Discours de la methode (1637), his contemporaries knew him better from his numerous editions of works of Desiderius Erasmus. Maire's cooperation in his earlier years as a publisher with the Raphelengii and Thomas Erpenius, professor of Oriental languages in L...
An Unknown Holograph Letter by Christophe Plantin, Recently Discovered
Facsimile with introduction, transcription and translation by R. Breugelmans.
Fac Et Spera
With a CD-ROM containing the images of the title pages.
The Pilgrim Press
Partial reprint with new contributions by R. Breugelmans, J.A. Gruys & Keith L. Sprunger. Contains inter alia a full Bibliography - with exact collations, notes, and census of copies - of the 21 books published by the Pilgrim Press.
Fac Et Spera
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Leiden Imprints 1483-1600 in Leiden University Library and Bibliotheca Thysiana
First edition. Printed catalogues like the present one are very useful to scholars (Robert M. Kingdom in Bibliothéque de l`Humanisme et Renaissance 37, 1975).
