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3RD EDITION OF THE FIRST COLLECTION OF POEMS
OF ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS POETS OF THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE

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HUYGENS, Constantijn. Ses Boecken van de Ledige Uren, zijnde ghedichten van verscheyden talen, stijlen, ende stoffen. [2nd title-page:] Otiorum libri sex. Poëmata varij sermonis, styli, argumenti.
Haarlem, Hans Passchiers van Wesbusch, 1641. Oblong 16mo. Contemporary overlapping vellum with title written on spine.

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(2), 543, (1) pp. Bibl. Belg. H-103; Eyffinger, "Beknopte bibliogr. Const. Huygens," in: Huygens herdacht, 1987, p. 61, no. 211; Huygens, De gedichten (ed. Worp), I, p. xxii, nr. V; Scheurleer, Liedboeken, 150.
Third edition of the first collection of poems in Dutch, Latin, French and Italian, by of one of the three most famous poets of the Dutch Golden Age, Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687): a page-for-page reprint of the second edition of 1634 by the same publisher and in the same oblong 16mo format.
It includes laudatory poems by P.C. Hooft and Joost van den Vondel. It first appeared as Otia, or Ledige uyren in a quarto edition of 1625.
Fine copy, complete with the Dutch title-page, often lacking.