Fourth extended edition with commentary of the only surviving work of Cornelius Nepos (ca. 100-24 B.C.), the Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae by the Leiden young philologist Robertus Keuchenius (1636-1673, the later professor of Roman history at the Athenaeum Illustre of Amsterdam). It is a so-called Variorum edition offering the textus receptus of Nepos accompanied with the commentary and annotations taken from earlier editions.
The anonymous editor of this 1675 edition seems to be Keuchenius, for the main body of Nepos work and his own notes have been preserved. In a short 'ad lectorem' (signed 'Keuchenius' in 1658, anonymous in 1675) the editor explains that he based his edition on those of Lambinus and Longolius. Our 1687 edition is a close verbatim, line by line reprint of this 1675 edition with the same lay-out and the same kind of typeface and with the very same frontispiece (with the address altered), this time published by the Blaeu brothers Pieter and Joan and a number of Amsterdam co-publishers.
Owner's inscription of M. Schouwenburg dated 1811 on the second free endpaper. With some small tears in the lower margins of a few leaves, otherwise a good copy. Schweiger, II, 299; Dibdin, II, 245 (a beautiful and valuable work ... it was reprinted verbatim by Blaeu in 1687, who in every respect copied it); Moss, II, 319/20; Fabricius/Ernesti, I, 105: 'quae locupletissima est editio'; Graesse, II, 270; Ebert 5262.