2896 - 3588 OLD and RARE BOOKS
78 3176 Emblemata Brontius N 
78 3176 Emblemata Brontius N 
- Ad 1: occas. trifle foxed/ fingersoiled in margins; title-p. sl. soiled and worn in lower blank corner w. sm. dam. spot; old owner's initials on title-p.; occas. sl. wormholed; lacks free endpapers. Ad 2: lacks 2 leaves (G1 (w. woodcut) and G8); one leaf sm. tear (just touching text); occas. contemp. annots.; occas. sl. wormholed; a few leaves trifle foxed; final leaf stained. Frontcover loose; spine-ends dam.
= Ad 1: extremely rare, the first attempt in the Low Countries to publish an emblem book (not in Landwehr, which begins with emblemata published from 1542 onwards). Belgica Typogr. 423; Adams B-2900; BM Dutch, p.42. Ad 2: Belgica Typogr. 422; Adams B-2899; BM Dutch, p.42. Rarely found together in one volume. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
78 3177 Emblemata Brouërius van Niedek M 
78 3177 Emblemata Brouërius van Niedek M 
78 3177 Emblemata Brouërius van Niedek M 
- Binding heavily worn. Contents fine.
= Landwehr 82; Praz 436. The second, enlarged edition. Bound in at the end: "Bedenkingen over verscheide godsdienstige en zedelyke onderwerpen, in zinnebeeldige vertoogen voorgesteld, voornaamelyk ten gevolge der aankomende jeugd. Uit het Engelsch overgezet."
78 3178 Emblemata Burg H van den 
78 3178 Emblemata Burg H van den 
- Lacks final 2 index leaves; frontisp. (dust)stained and sl. fingersoiled in lower blank margin/ outer corner; preliminary leaves loose(ning); some plates in weak impression; occas. (sl.) soiled/ (water)stained.
= Landwehr 92; Praz p.292.
78 3179 Emblemata Castro J a 
78 3179 Emblemata Castro J a 
- Narrow blank strip of top margin of frontisp. cut off. Gilt on backstrip sl. worn.
= Landwehr 102; De Vries 230 (w. erroneous collation).
78 3180 Emblemata Dene E de 
78 3180 Emblemata Dene E de 
- Lacks the following leaves w. emblems: A4 (p.7/8), C1-4, F1 (p.41/ 42), K4 (p.79/ 80), Q3 (p.125/26), R4 (p.135/136), Cc4 (p.107/108) and lacks first free endpaper and first and final blank. Title-p. dam. from forceful erasing of owner's entries and/ or annots.; most leaves soiled/ stained; several leaves w. repaired tears and other dam. (mostly not affecting text/ images). Binding worn; corners dam.; covers stained.
= Landwehr 189; Praz, p.314f; De Vries 11; Bodemann 31.1; Fabula docet, p.47ff; Belgica Typografica 838. Very rare first edition of this influential Dutch emblem- and fable-book, with the prints based on the illustrations by Bernard Salomon for Gilles Corrozet, Les fables du tres ancien Esope (1542). "Erste Fabelausgabe, die durch einen Illustrator (Gheeraerts) initiert und verlegt wurde" (Bodemann); "The first Dutch contribution to emblematics in the vernacular." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
78/3181 Emblemata Emblemata selectiora Typis elegantissima expressa nec non Sententiis Carminibus Historiis ac Proverbiis ex scriptoribus cum sacris tum profanis antiquis & recentioribus ill
78/3181 Emblemata Emblemata selectiora Typis elegantissima expressa nec non Sententiis Carminibus Historiis ac Proverbiis ex scriptoribus cum sacris tum profanis antiquis & recentioribus ill
78/3181 Emblemata Emblemata selectiora Typis elegantissima expressa nec non Sententiis Carminibus Historiis ac Proverbiis ex scriptoribus cum sacris tum profanis antiquis & recentioribus ill
- Title-p. sl. yellowed and foxed; textp. and 3 other plates sl. foxed; bookplate (of cardinal Ludovicus Dubois) on upper pastedown. Binding sl. worn/ rubbed along extremities; foot of spine chipped.
= Landwehr 217; Praz p.322 The emblems printed in this edition were first used in Corpusculum, elegantissimorum emblematum (publ. Leyden, 1696. Landwehr 181). Rare. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
78 3182 Emblemata Freitag A 
78 3182 Emblemata Freitag A 
78 3182 Emblemata Freitag A 
- One textleaf and final index leaf restored in blank margin; 1 leaf w. sm. (partly closed) tear in outer margin; contents partly (vaguely) dust-/ waterstained in margins and corners (occas. also affecting text area); old auction ticket tipped onto verso of first blank. Binding warped and partly darkened; corners sl. worn/ rubbed; upper outer corner of frontcover sl. dam.
= Landwehr (German) 380 (under Kilian, Cornelis); Fairfax Murray (German) 427. The fine etchings by Gheeraerts were first printed in De Dene's De warachtige Fabulen der dieren (Bruges, 1567. Landwehr 189; Praz I, p.314f), then used in Arnold Freitag's Mythologia ethica, hoc est moralis philosophiae per fabulas brutis attributas traditae amoenissimum viridarium (Antw., Plantijn, 1579. Landwehr 239; Praz p.341); the present edition is a reissue of Freitag's work by George Muting, w. three additional emblems. Cf. Bodemann I, 39.1, 48.1 and 51.1. A very rare and beautifully illustrated complete copy (only one other complete copy traced in the trade). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXV.
78 3183 Emblemata Heinsius D 
78 3183 Emblemata Heinsius D 
78 3183 Emblemata Heinsius D 
78 3183 Emblemata Heinsius D 
78 3183 Emblemata Heinsius D 
78 3183 Emblemata Heinsius D 
- Interleaved copy. Misbound at the end (approx. final 20 lvs.) but complete; a few lvs. w. some sm./ minor dam. spots in blank margin.
= Although numbered 1-52, the emblems are divided into 3 parts: 24 to "Het ambacht van Cupido", 24 emblems to "Emblemata amatoria" and the final 4 emblems to "Nederduytsche Poemata". Landwehr refers to the article in De Gulden Passer (1927), p.12-21, titled "Niet bestaande of uiterst zeldzaam geworden drukken van D. Heinsius", which identifies this edition as follows: " (...) dat de Amsterdamsche uitgave z. jt. der Emblemata Amatoria [...] een herdruk, onder miniatuur-formaat (9,5×7,4 cm.), van de Leidsche uitgave 1613 (19,4×14,9 cm.) is, verjongd echter door middel van nieuw gegraveerde prentjes (...), die als voor dit miniatuur-formaat speciaal schijnen gemaakt te zijn en verder in de Nederduytsche Poemata 1616 voorkomen; (...) we hier te doen hebben met eene uitgave, die, wat dagteekening betreft, nauw aansluit bij de Nederduytsche Poemata 1616". Very rare and fine impressions of the plates. NB: different typesetting and stronger impressions in comparison to the other edition (the following lot) offered in our rooms this auction. This work possibly an unrecorded different edition? SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
BOUND WITH: (Vaenius, O). (Emblemata amatoria aliquot selectoria. Ibid., idem, 1618), (16),70,(16) lvs., 71 engr. emblems by OTTO VAENIUS, text in Latin, Dutch and French.
- Interleaved copy. Lacks frontisp. and title; first quire loosening.
= Very rare 24mo edition of Vaenius' Amorum Emblemata (ed. 1608). Landwehr 836.
78 3184 Emblemata Heinsius D 
78 3184 Emblemata Heinsius D 
- Lacks first blank; title-p. sl. frayed; engr. bookplate laid down on verso of engr. title; trifle yellowed.
= Although numbered 1-52, the emblems are divided into 3 parts: 24 to "Het ambacht van Cupido", 24 emblems to "Emblemata amatoria" and the final 4 emblems to "Nederduytsche Poemata". Landwehr refers to the article in De Gulden Passer (1927), p.12-21, titled "Niet bestaande of uiterst zeldzaam geworden drukken van D. Heinsius", which identifies this edition as follows: " (...) dat de Amsterdamsche uitgave z. jt. der Emblemata Amatoria [...] een herdruk, onder miniatuur-formaat (9,5×7,4 cm.), van de Leidsche uitgave 1613 (19,4×14,9 cm.) is, verjongd echter door middel van nieuw gegraveerde prentjes (cfr. de Vries, op. cit. no 29), die als voor dit miniatuur-formaat speciaal schijnen gemaakt te zijn en verder in de Nederduytsche Poemata 1616 voorkomen; (...) we hier te doen hebben met eene uitgave, die, wat dagteekening betreft, nauw aansluit bij de Nederduytsche Poemata 1616". Very rare, only two copies in STCN. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVI.
78 3185 Emblemata Heinsius D 
78 3185 Emblemata Heinsius D 
- Lacks one leaf with ill. (P2) in Nederduytse Poemata; one leaf lacks sm. blank section of lower margin; occas. sl. stained; hinges weak.
= From the library of Roberto Almagia (bookplate on upper pastedown). Contains, apart from the Lof-Sanck and the Nederduytsche Poemata, the following divisional titles: Het ambacht van Cupido; Emblemata amatoria; Spiegel vande Doorluchtige, eerlicke, cloucke, deuchtsame ende verstandige Vrouwen (...) and Hymnus van Bacchus, Waer in 't gebruyck ende misbruyck vande Wijn beschreven wort. Contains a fine portrait of an inebriated Bacchus. Extremely rare first collected edition, only traced in Scheepers I, 355 ("Zeldzame uitgave") and one copy (of this obl. 16mo edition) in STCN. For the 8vo edition (w. 301p.) see Praz p.366, Landwehr 296 and De Vries, Emblemata 32. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
78 3186 Emblemata Heinsius D 
- Waterstained in upper margin (partly slightly, but also extending into the text, esp. in the second half of the book); pastedowns loose.
= Praz p.366; Landwehr 296; De Vries, Emblemata 32. Contains, apart from the Lof-Sanck and the Nederduytsche Poemata, the following divisional titles: Het ambacht van Cupido; Emblemata amatoria; Spiegel vande Doorluchtige, eerlicke, cloucke, deuchtsame ende verstandige Vrouwen (...) and Hymnus van Bacchus, Waer in 't gebruyck ende misbruyck vande Wijn beschreven wort. Contains a fine portrait of an inebriated Bacchus. On the first edition of this hymn to Bacchus (publ. Leyden, 1615), see Oberlé, Fastes 1032: "(...) Heinsius semble avoir eu une tendresse particulière pour le dieu du vin car, déjà en 1610, il donnait une dissertation sur les Dionysiaques du grand poète grec de la décadence, Nonnos. Il est d'ailleurs probable qu'il ait tiré son hymne de Bacchus de cette collosale épopée." SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
78 3187 Emblemata Hesius G 
78 3187 Emblemata Hesius G 
- Title-p. remargined lower margin, otherwise a fine copy.
= Landwehr 299; Praz p.367; BCNI 8942. The nice emblems depict (putti with) music instruments, working or playing putti, the effects of (sun)light, etc.
78 3188 Emblemata Hesman G 
- Occas. dogeared and frayed. Gilt on wrappers barely visible; frontwr. loose and dam.; backwr. dam.; lacks backstrip.
= Landwehr 303. The plates are copies in reverse of O. Vaenius' Amorum Emblemata. Rare, only 4 copies in STCN. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVII.
78 3189 Emblemata Heyns M 
78 3189 Emblemata Heyns M 
- Frontcover sl. stained, otherwise fine.
= Praz p.359; Landwehr 304: "partly emblematical and drawing on Z. Heyns, Emblemata (...) contains inter alia the first Dutch translation of M. de Montaigne's work." The sole edition of this work. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
78 3190 Emblemata Hilaire I 
78 3190 Emblemata Hilaire I 
78 3190 Emblemata Hilaire I 
78 3190 Emblemata Hilaire I 
78 3190 Emblemata Hilaire I 
- Cut short as often at fore-margin, occas. touching/ affecting letters; large armorial bookplate on upper pastedown; title and 1 engr. w. tiny ruststain. Upper joint splitting. The plates in splendid impressions, with margins.
= Franken 1345; Hollstein XV, 857; Landwehr, Romanic emblem books 382; Praz 446. The very rare first and only edition of this beautiful emblem book. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
78 3191 Emblemata Hoogstraten J van 
- Occas. vaguely (water)stained/ sl. foxed; lacks free endpaper and final blank; hinges weak. Covers rubbed along extremities.
= Landwehr 334 (erroneously 150 emblems). First edition.
78 3192 Emblemata Hugo H 
78 3192 Emblemata Hugo H 
- Lower hinge broken. Joints split(ting); lacks letterpiece; binding sl. worn.
= Landwehr 358; De Vries 130 (erroneous collation); BCNI 9887. The second edition of the Dutch translation of Pia desideria (first ed. Antw., H. Aertssens, 1629), w. woodcuts from the Latin ed. by Paets, 1628.
78 3193 Emblemata Hugo H 
78 3193 Emblemata Hugo H 
- Lacks the halftitle (*2) and the last 2 leaves (Cc7 and Cc8, with licenses and impressum); occas. sl. browned/ small stains; cut sl. short in upper margin, a few times touching the running title or page numbers. On the whole a good copy.
= Landwehr 345: "Editio princeps of perhaps the most influential religious emblem book."; Praz 376-377: "Between 1624 and 1757 no less than 42 Latin editions are recorded". SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.
78 3194 Emblemata Hugo H 
- Owner's stamp on htitle; occas. foxed; 2 leaves w. sm. burn hole in text.
= This variant ed. not in Landwehr, nor in De Backer/ Sommervogel; cf. Landwehr 345 and 346; De Backer/ Sommervogel II, p.220-223; Praz 376-377: "Between 1624 and 1757 no less than 42 Latin editions are recorded". Rare and nice small-sized edition.
78 3195 Emblemata Isselburg P 
78 3195 Emblemata Isselburg P 
- Lacks leaf A4 and the leaves w. emblem 15, 16, 18, 23 and 24; the leaves w. emblem 2 and 3 are badly dam. (lower half torn off); large closed tear in engr. title; sm. tear in image of plates 1 and 17; plate 25 lacks lower inner corner (touching the platemark); scribbling in old pen and ink on endpapers and final blank (causing stain in the large engr. on dedicatory leaf); partly soiled in blank margins. Binding rubbed along extremities. Sold w.a.f.
= Landwehr 372; Praz 381.