Casaubon, Isaac. Epistolae, insertis ad easdem responseibus. Tertia editio. Curante Theodoro Janson. 4 parts in 1 volume. Title in black and red. With 1 (instead of 2) engraved portrait boards. 35 x 22.5 cm. Blind embossed calf leather band d. C. (breath and hit, with partly larger scrap marks, joints burst) with gold emboded RSchild. Rotterdam, Caspar Fritsch and Michael Böhm, 1709. Graesse II, 61. Ebert 3629. Sandys II, 209. – Third edition. "Casaubon (1559-1614) lives in his Letters and in his Ephemerides, a Latin journal largely interspersed with Greek, recording his daily reading and his reflections for the last events years of his life. Here and in his Letters, the Latin is that of a perfect master of the language" (Sandys). – One of the two portraits is missing. A little tanned or brownish.