[Classical antiquity] Horatius Flaccus, Cum erudito Laevini Torrentii Commentario,

nunc primum in lucem edito. Item Petri Nannii Alcmariani in Artem Poëticam. Antw., Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1608, (20),839,(40) p., w. engr. title-vignette and 2 portraits of Torrentius and Horatius, cont. marbled boards w. manuscr. paper letterpiece on ribbed spine, 4to. Paper over spine split in the middle (bookblock broken), spine-ends and outer corners sl. dam./ worn. With 18th cent. heraldic bookplate "Ex bibliotheca publica collegii Divio-Godranii" (College des Godran Dijon Bourgogne) verso title-p. and manuscr. owner's entry at the top of the title-p.

Levinus Torrentius (Lieven van der Beken/ Liévin van der Beken, 1525-1595, humanist and 2nd Bishop of Antwerp, Neo-Latinist poet. He edited the works of Suetonius and Horatius [here offered]. Van der Aa, Biogr. Woordenboek (Haarlem, 1878), p. 195-196.