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[Lange, Johan Peter], Democritus Ridens sive Campus Recreationum Honestarum cum Exerciso Melancholiae, Gedani [Gedansk] : Apud Aegidium Janssonium à Waesberge, 1696. Vélin. In-12; 13cm. [initial blank, title page in red and black ; 260 pages, final blank], bound in polished vellum with a lap edge. Page edges show rouging. A good copy in a very good period binding. Ownership inscriptions relating to the de Belfort and the Gingott families on the initial blank. Inked title on back. Pocket edition of this long-popular collection of brief anecdotes, chiefly of famous persons. Latin text.
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