Live auction - Lot 795
[Emblems]
Emblemata of Zinne-werck [...] In beelden, ghedichten, en breeder uijt-legginghen tot uijt-druckinghe, en verbeteringhe van verscheijden feijlen onser eeuwe.
Amsterdam, J.E. Kloppenburch, 1624
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
4to: [10]-360 pp.
Contemp. overl. blindst. vellum with central ornament punched out of both covers, flat spine (bookblock loosening from spine).
First edition of this typically Dutch emblem book by the Middelburg author Johan de Brune (1588-1658). Ill. with an engr. title and 51 half-page emblems (most partly hand-coloured) engr. by i.a. C. Le Blon, J. Gelle, A. Poel after A. van de Venne.
Ref. Landwehr 86. - Emblem books Leiden 75. - STCN.
Prov. "B. van den Gheyn, 1806" (ms. entry on title). - "Buyck, 1659" (ms. entry on title).