Epistolarum centuriae duae: Quarum prior innovata, altera nova

8vo. 304 (i.e 312) pp. A-L8, M4. With the printer's device on the title-page. Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin with the arms of the Dukes of Württemberg on the panels.
J. de Landtsheer, Justus Lipsius, 1547-1606, and the Edition of his ‘Centuriae miscellaneae', 1586-1605; some Particularities and Practical Problems, in: “Lias”, 25, 1998, p. 78; A. Pettegree & M. Walsby, eds., Netherlandish books: books published in the Low Countries and Dutch books published abroad before 1601, Leiden, 2011, II, p. 842, no. 19328.
 
RE-ISSUE of the first edition of 1590 (it was reprinted at Frankfurt/M in 1591, Lyon in 1592 and 1596, London in 1593, and Paris in 1599).
“The second part is a new Centuria of letters dedicated to Baron Cecil Burghley, Governor of den Briel [dated April 11, 1590], who has shown great courage and skill both in pace and in wartime. The whole collection was written by Lipsius, with the exception of two letters that came from Josephus Justus Scaliger and his father Julius Caesar [...] This new Centuria got Lipsius into trouble, for three letters [13, 14, 15] inserted, which Lipsius had written during his sojourn in Oldenburg [Westphalia] and in which he had poked fun at the way of life he was confronted with. When [...] the collection was dispersed all over the empire, it stirred up bad blood among the Westphalians. One of them, Johannes Domannus, had his retort ready at the Frankfurt September book fair of 1591, an angry pamphlet to defend his country's honour. Lipsius did not feel tempted to start a paper war, but he apologized in letters to two German acquaintances, men of influence, viz. the Silesian humanist Jacobus Monavius and Henricus Ranzovius, a nobleman and governor of Schleswig-Holstein: he had never had the intention to trample on the Germans' feelings, and definitely not to offend the Emperor; his jokes and their phrasing might have been somewhat ill-considered” (J. de Landtsheer, op. cit., pp. 75-77).
 
(Centuria I, which contains mostly the same letters as the editio princeps of 1586, excepted the following:)
(letter) VII from Scaliger, Julius Caesar is replaced by one to Pithou, Pierre, Louvain, January 17, 1577 (p. 19)
IX to Giselinus, Victor is replaced by another letter to him, August 31, n.y. (p. 28)
X to Ellinger, Andreas is replaced by one to Lernutius, Janus, Leiden, September 12, 1582 (p. 28)
XI from Muret, Marc-Antoine is replaced by one to Gulielmius, Joannes, Leiden, August 11, 1580 (p. 29)
XVII from Busbecq, Ogier [Ghislain de] is replaced by one to Grotius, Jan, Leiden August 2, [1586] (p. 37)
XXIV from Rataller, Georgius is replaced by one to Camden, William, Leiden, July 29, 1586 (p. 53)
XXIX from Scaliger, Julius Caesar is replaced by one to Teeling, Theobald, Leiden, August 14, n.y. (p. 61)
XXX to Florentius, Nicolaus is replaced by one to Biesius, Nicolaus, [June, 1572?] (p. 61)
XXXIV from Busbecq, Ogier [Ghislain de] is replaced by one to Lernutius, Janus, October 1, 1585 (p. 67)
XXXVIII from Gulielmius, Joannes is replaced by one to Jonston, John, Leiden, March 22, 1588 (p. 72)
XLV to Giselinus, Victor replaced by one to Schott, Andreas, July 7, 1582 (p. 82)
XLVI from Roeland, Gabriel is replaced by one to Pollio, Everhart, Leiden, August 8, 1581 (p. 83)
IL from L'Escluse, Charles de is replaced by one to Vivien, Jean, Leiden, 1584 (p. 86)
LIII from Muret, Marc-Antoine is replaced by another letter to him, Leiden, November 29, 1581 (p. 107)
LVII from Marnix, Philip is replaced by one to Burch, Adrian van der, Leiden, January 28, [1586] (p. 112)
LXVII to Egmond [Nieuwenburg], Cornelis van is replaced by one to Cujas, Jacques, Leiden, October 5, [1586] (p. 130)
LXIX to Dammius, Adrianus is replaced by one to Lydius, Martinus, Leiden, June 28, 1585 (p. 132)
LXXVI to Dunellus [Doneau], Hugues is replaced by one to Cujas, Jacques, Leiden, April 5, 1585 (p. 140)
LXXXIV from Pincaeus, Renatus is replaced by one to Canter, Theodor, Leiden April 5, 1585 (p. 152)
XCI from Dudith, Andre