Casparis Barlaei Med. Doct. ac philosophiae in ill. Amstel. Gymnasio dum viveret professoris Epistolarum liber
Contributors: Johan Maurits, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, 1604-1679; Brandt, Geeraert, 1626-1685; St. Ignatius College (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Library
Publisher: Apud Joannem Blaeu.
Published: 1667
Place of publication: Amstelodami
Language: lat
Subjects: Politics and government; Medieval and modern Latin letters; Correspondance; History
Other titles: Casparis Barlaei Med. Doct. ac philosophiae in ill. Amstel. Gymnasio dum viveret professoris Epistolarvm liber.; Epistolarum liber.; Epistolarvm liber.
Description: A collection of more than five hundred letters, written between 1639 and 1647. Two letters in part 2, no. 402, p.  784-785 (dated 1639), and no. X, p. 1020-1025 (dated 1647), are addressed to Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, who was the Dutch governor of Brazil from 1636 to 1644.
Notes: Dedication, pt. 1, p. [3-7], 1st count, dated and signed by the editor: Hornae M D C 1667. Gerardvs Brandt.

Part 2 has title page reading: "Casparis Barlaei Epistolarvm liber. Pars altera" and has imprint: Amstelodami, Apud Joannem Blaev. M. DC. LXVII. [1667]

Pagination: pt. 1: [16], 528 p.; pt. 2: [529]-1025, [3] p.

Signatures: pt. 1: *⁸ (*1 verso blank) A-2K⁸; pt. 2: A-2H⁸ (A1 verso blank) 2I². (2I2 verso blank)

Errata and corrigenda: pt. 2, p. [1-2], 2nd count.

Engraved armillary sphere printer's device with motto "Indefessus agendo" on title pages; tail pieces; initials.

Moraes, R.B. de. Bibliographia brasiliana (1983 edition), I: p. 79.

European Americana, 667/74.

Purchase; 2017; 18-123.

Text primarily in Latin with quotations and examples in Greek.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in modern full green bookcloth covered boards.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Kenyon Fund.

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Bibl. St. Ignatius College Amsterdam: book stamps on title pages and on rectos of front flyleaves.