Alle de wercken.

Folio: [22]-664-[9], [18]-608-67-[1]-[4 bl.] pp. (missing: title first part (replaced by title 2nd part), pp. 665/666 in the first part = Oooo3, title with portrait of Cats, 2 full-page author's portraits, pp. 425/426 (part-title "Galathea"); def. first quires and some other pp. showing tears and missing pieces of paper, some margins underlaid).

Contemp. half calf, marbled paper on boards, spine with 5 raised bands (def. at corners, sides, joints, head and tail). Used copy, s.w.a.f.

Profusely illustrated ed. of the collected works (1st 1655) of Jacob Cats (1577-1660). Incl. also his 2 last works: "Twee-en-tachtig-jarig leven", an autobiography in verse and "Gedachten op slapeloose nachten". Ill. with: 1 title-vign., 1 endpiece, full-page portrait of A.M. Schurman by S.V. Lamsweerde, 3 double-page plates i.a. "Afbeeldinghe des huwelyk onder de gedaente van een fuyk" by A. vander Venne, 2 full-page plates, 8 (of 9) ill. on part-titles and +/- 450 emblematical ill. in-text.
Ref. Cats Catalogus (= STCN) 8. - Embl. bks Leiden 144.
Prov. Stamp (erased).
Joined: Houbraken, A. - De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen [...]. Amsterdam, for the author, 1718-1719. 2 vol., 8vo (sm. ticket on verso titles, minor browning & spotting). Contemp. vellum. 2 (of 3) vol. of the first edition of this collection of biographies of some 550 Dutch and Flemish artists from 1466 to 1659. Compl. in themselves with 35 fine pl. engr. by J. Houbraken, Arnold's son (1698-1780) and some by D. Jonkman: front., engr. dedication (2nd vol.), front.-portrait and 32 pl., mostly portraits of artists; and some small engr. Ref. De Man (Kunst op schrift) 171, 177, 196. - Arntzen/Rainwater H-97. - STCN (i.a. BL). (3 vol.)