Live auction - Lot 725
[Emblems]
2 devotional works.
Hammer price: €
120
€ 120 / 160
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Lot description
8vo, later bindings.
1. Poiters, A. - Het duyfken in de steen-rotse dat is, eene mede-lydende siele op die bittere passie Jesu Christi mediterende. Antw., Woons, 1662. 8vo (some browning and spotting). Front., 14 large emblems and 5 sm. ill. by J. Neefs. Ref. STCV. - DBS VI:930:7. - Rombauts 263:4. Prov. Stamp on title. - 2. Hugo, H. - Pieux désirs imites des latins du Herman Hugo. Mis en lumière par Boëce à Bolswert. Antwerp, Cnobbaert, 1627, for sale: Paris, S. Cramoisy, 1627. (Quire A bound before *8, upper bl. margin title cut out, some staining and min. browning). French trsl. of one of the most popular religious emblem books. Engr. ill. by Boëtius a Bolswert : title and 46 numb. rectangular emblems. Each emblem with Latin captions underneath. ref. DBS IV:518:6. - Fr. emblem books F-334. - Daly/Dimler J. 701. - Goldsmith (BL) H-662. - Landwehr 240. - STCV (3, all incompl.).