first edition Hardcover
1623
by Pierre Francois Sweerts
Bernardum Gaultheri, 1623. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Full vellum. 351p. 3 7/8" x 6 1/4". Book in very good condition. General shelf wear and soiling in accordance with age. Title still visible on spine. Interior remarkably clean and tight. Book in very good condition. A multilingual collection of humorous and serious epitaphs. Texts in Latin and a variety of early forms of modern European languages. The subtitle cribs from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes, reading roughly: "With much wisdom comes much indignation. I looked and looked and indeed everything under the sun is vanity and vexation and infinite foolishness. The learned die just like the (truncated)