De verscheyden lessen Petri Messiae. Edelman van Sivilien [Sevilla]

Waer inne beschreven worden de weirdichste geschiedenissen aller Keyseren, Coningen ende loflicker mannen: Mitsgaders tleven ende treffelickste sententien der Philosophen (...) Leyden. Jan Claesz. van Dorp. 1607. Bound together with: De seven verscheyden tSamensprekinghen Petri Messiae. 1607. 2 parts in one volume. Small 8vo, vellum, 2 titles with printer's mark. 627,(12); 157,(1) pp. Vellum binding shabby and damaged, both first quire and binding tender.

Rare Dutch translation of a very popular work by the Spanish humanist and historian Pedro Mexia from Sevilla: Silva de varia lecion. The second part is a translation of Los dialogos o coloquios and discusses the sun, earth and meteors and various conversation. Interesting, rare but damaged.