Live auction - Lot 827

[Emblems]

BOCCHI, Achille

Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque.

Bologna, Societas Typographiae Bononiensis, 1574

€ 400 / 500

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4to: [48]-ccclvii-[1-2 bl.] pp. (foxing, some marg. staining, sm. piece of paper lacking to blank margins of pp. 129-130).

19th-c. red morocco by Belz-Niédrée, spine titled in gilt with raised bands, gilt ruled edges and inside covers, gilt & marbled edges matching endpapers (scratches, joints renewed, corners rubbed). Wide-margined copy.

Second edition (1st: 1555) of this beautiful emblem book by the Italian humanist writer Bocchi (1488-1562). Illustrated with 151 full-page engr. rectangular emblems by Giulio Bonasone and retouched by the young Agostino Carracci. The illustrations show the whole universal knowledge: physics, metaphysics, theology, dialectic, love, life and death, etc. Large woodcut device of the Society on title. One ornamental initial.
Ref. Edit16 6486. - Adams B-2195. - Praz 276. - Landwehr, Romanic, 163. - Mortimer 77. - STC Italy p. 112. - Bn-Opale plus (2). - Not in Machiels.
Prov. Bellisario Bulgarini (1539-1619), Sienese poet, member of the Accademia degli Intronati (ms. ownership entry). - James Carson Brevoort (1818-1887), American collector (leather bookpl.).

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Lot 827

Symbolicarum quaestionum, de universo genere, quas serio ludebat, libri quinque.

BOCCHI, Achille

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