- Title-p. dam in lower outer corner (w. loss of part of Stoer's address and year) and sl. wormholed and soiled; 6 consecutive woodcuts (decreasingly) affected by large brown inkstain; erratic pagination, but complete; final 6 leaves increasingly wormholed.
= Adams B 933; Landwehr 157; Adams/ Rawles/ Saunders F.107; cf. Praz p.270 note. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIV.
- Lacks 5 leaves w. 5 emblems (p.3-4 and p.97-104); occas. sl. foxed; later endpapers. Vellum soiled.
= Landwehr 133; Adams B2324. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Engr. heraldic bookplate of "James Allardes" on upper pastedown; extensive manuscript list of the emblems on first free endpaper by "C.B. Lengrich"; engr. title sl. yellowed and trimmed to the outer borderline; most leaves (sl.) fingersoiled in lower outer corner; 2 leaves w. sm. inkstain in outer margin (one leaf also w. rusthole (Ø 3 mm) just inside emblem); 2 leaves misboud; a few contemp. annots. and marks in text. Lower corner frontcover and foot of spine trifle dam. (sm. hole).
= Landwehr 135; Praz p.279 (calling for a final unnumb. blank (Ll2) leaf, which is absent in our copy); Adams B-2344; Hollstein IV, 255-314. Scarce. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXIII.
- Endpapers partly browned from turn- ins.
= From the library of Bob Luza with his bookplate on upper pastedown. Landwehr 80. First and only edition.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.
- Narrow blank strip of top margin of frontisp. cut off. Gilt on backstrip sl. worn.
= Landwehr 102; De Vries 230 (w. erroneous collation).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.