Live auction - Lot 990
[Emblems - Plantin Press]
Emblemata, cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis […].
Antwerp, Chr. Plantin, 25 August 1564
Hammer price: €
1.300
€ 400 / 500
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Lot description
8vo: 240 pp.
Old vellum, flat spine titled in ink. In slipcase. Very good copy.
First edition of the learned emblems of the Hungarian humanist Sambucus (1531-1584). Title within elaborate woodcut border (incl. printer’s mark). Woodcut portrait of Sambucus (p. 8). 167 emblem woodcuts and 23 woodcut coin ill. by A. Nicolai, G. Janssen and C. Muller.
Ref. Voet 2168. - BT 4241. - Dekesel S-29. - Landwehr, LC, 709. - Oberlé 259.
Prov. Ms. entry at title bottom deleted. - Mod. bookpl.