[Leiden] Ioannis Meursi Athenae Batavae

Sive De Urbe Leidensi & Academia, Virisque claris; qui utramque ingenio suo, atque scriptis illustrarunt: Libri duo. [Johannes Meurs]. Leiden, Andreas Clouck and Elsevir, 1625. Small 4to, vellum, title on spine in red and gilt stamping.

Frontispiece with allegorical scene by G. Swan and title, (42),351 pp., 2 folding plans, 7 double-page plates incl. a plan, 10 engravings in the text, 52 full-page engravings, most of which portraits of professors, all in copper engravings and a woodcut of coins in the text. Spine with minor dam., binding with traces of use, else a good copy of this early description of the academic world of Leiden.