78/2652 [Emblemata]. Zeeusche Nachtegael, ende Des selfs dryderley gesang: Geheel anders inder waerheyt verthoont, als de selve voor desen by sommighe uyt enckel mis-verstant verkeerdelijck is gheoordeelt. Door Verscheyden treffelijcke Zeeusche Poëten by een ghebracht; (...) Hier is noch by-ghevought een Poëtisch werck ghenaemt Tafereel van Sinne-Mal [by A. vande Venne]. Middelburg, J.P. vande Venne, 1623, 2 parts in 1 vol., (10),86,(4),60,(4),63,(1 blank); (8),114[=104]p., 2 title-pages with identical large allegorical woodcut, woodcut headpiece with a view of Middelburg, repeated in the added work, woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials, 8 large (1 full-p.) emblems by D. VAN BREMDEN, P. DE JODE, W. DE PASSE, C. VAN QUEBOREN and P. SERWOUTERS, all after A. VAN DE VENNE, 8 large engravings with daily life scenes in the added work designed and engraved by A. VAN DE VENNE, contemp. vellum, 4to.

- Bookplate of J. Steenks on upper pastedown; catalogue clipping laid down on first flyleaf; 18th cent. ms. annots. in text (adding the full name of the authors in places where the initials are given); p.13-14 lower corner repaired. Occas. vague waterstains in blank margin, but otherwise a remarkably clean copy, with sharp, early impressions of the illustrations.

= The first edition of this famous songbook, meant to spread the glory of the prince of Zeeland, with contributions by 18 poets born or living in Zeeland (i.a. A. Roemers Visscher, J. Cats, A. Valerius, Ph. van Borssele, J. de Brune). The plates, belonging to the best of 17th cent. Dutch bookillustration, are of emblematic and folkloristic interest. Praz p.540; Scheurleer p.149; Meertens, Letterkundig leven in Zeeland, p.217-239; Franken, Van de Venne p.97; Hollstein, W. de Passe 58; Hollstein, C. van den Queborn 95; Hollstein, Serwouters 76; Hollstein, De Jode I, 120-135 (?); Hollstein, Van de Venne 446-455; Landwehr 588 mentions P. de Jode, C. van Queboren and A. Matham as engravers.