Live auction - Lot 1135

[Dutch poetry - Breda]

PENDER, Joh.

Micro-cosmos ofte Kleyne werelt, dat is Een vergelyckinge van s’menschen lichaem by de groote werelt.

Breda, J. van Waesberge, 1648


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4to: [16]-86-[4] pp. (toned, marginal dampstaining, hole in inner margin M1 (Index) with loss of some words).

Contemp. gilt calf, covers with gilt ruled border and central ornament, gilt spine with 4 raised bands (rubbed, head and tail def.). Good copy.

Rare Breda ed. of a Dutch poem by Johan Pender, "heelmeester tot Bergen-op Zoom", on the analogy of the human body and the physical world. Woodcut mark on title. Large woodcut diagram (*2r).
Ref. STCN.
Prov. "Henrici van Vianen doctoris medicinae Bruxellensis" (front flyleaf).
Bound with: Burghoorn, I. - Nieuwe werelt vol gecken. The Hague, printed for the author, 1641. 4to: [6]-87-[1] pp. (title missing; almost loose from binding). Satirical poem on folly. 7 astronomical woodcuts and 2 engravings (1 after A. vande Venne). Ref. STCN.

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Lot 1135

Micro-cosmos ofte Kleyne werelt, dat is Een vergelyckinge van s’menschen lichaem by de groote werelt.

PENDER, Joh.

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