Masson´s Jani templum 1700

MASSON, JOANNE (JEAN PAPIRE). Jani Templum Christo nascente reseratum, seu Tractatus chronologico-historicus, vulgarem resellens opinionem existimantium, pacem toto terrarum orbe sub tempus servatoris N. natale, stabilitam fuisse. Quae opere multa romanam historiam spectantia illustrantur, adduntur et numismatum, quae passim in hoc opere elucidantur, effigies: ac synopsis chronologica: indicesque necessarii... Roterodami (apud Bernhardum Bos) 1700.

Small 8:o (about 157x98 mm.). (60), 1-411, (22, (1 blank) pp. Engraved extra title, title printed in red and black with engraved vignette showing medals, 17 engravings of coins/medals in text.
Contemporary half vellum, worn, spine with manuscript title, red edges. Minor foxing. Bookplate.

Jean Papire Masson (1544-1611) was a French humanist historian, known also as a geographer, biographer, literary critic and jurist.
First and only edition of this historical and chronological treatise regarding the period of Jesus Christ´s nativity, illustrated also with the coins of that time.

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