Books were expensive gifts but Liddel received many. This folio copy of Vitae virorum illustrium was given to Liddel by Heinrich Vestring (1562-1650). Vestring, only a year younger than Liddel, studied at Rostock after Liddel had graduated from there in 1587 and went on to live and work in Tallinn for the rest of his life as a teacher and pastor.
The inscription reads: Hunc librum M. Duncano Liddel p[rae]ceptori suo multare colendo dedit ni perpetua sui memoriam profecturo Henricus Vestringij Wesphalius.