(IRELAND.) Oxford, University of. Academiae Oxoniensis gratulatio pro exoptato serenissimi regis Guilielmi ex Hibernia reditu. [60] leaves. Folio, 354x221 mm, contemporary marbled wrappers, worn, missing portions of backstrip; contents dog-eared at beginning and end, few ink smudges on title, wormtrail through blank lower outer corner of around 10 leaves in middle of volume. wide-margined copy. Oxford: at the Theater, 1690
first edition of a verse collection celebrating the return of William III from his 1690 campaign to take control of Ireland. The poems are in Latin apart from several in Greek by various writers, one in Arabic by Edward Pococke, and one each in Turkish and Persian by Thomas Hyde. Case 194; Wing O-858.
