[Cosmology etc.] De verscheyden lessen Petri Messiae. Edelman van Sivilien

Waer inne beschreven worden de weirdichste geschiedenissen aller Keyseren, Coningen ende loflicker mannen: Mitsgaders tleven ende treffelickste sententien der Philosophen (...). Leiden, Jan Claesz. van Dorp, 1607. Bound together with: De seven verscheyden tSamensprekinghen Petri Messiae. 1607. 2 parts in one vol. Small 8vo, vellum, 2 titles with printer's device. 627,(12); 157,(1) pp. Shabby vellum, later front endpaper, ann. in pen to first title, text sl. browned, else a good and tight copy.

Rare Dutch translation of a highly popular work by 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 cosmology: the sun, earth and meteors and various conversations. Scarce.