Live auction - Lot 1061
[Plantin Press - Emblems]
Christeliicken waerseggher, de principale stucken van t’Christen geloof en leuen int cort begrijpende. Met een Rolle der deugtsaemheyt daer op dienende. Ende een Schild-Wacht teghen de valsche waersegghers, tooueraers, etc.
Antwerp, Plantin Press (J. Moretus), 1603 (pt. 2: 1602)
€ 100 / 150
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Lot description
4to: [14]-372-[1-1 bl.-5-1 bl.]-xxxvij (= 37)-[2-1 bl.-11-1 bl.] pp. (lacking 3 ff.: *1 engr. title, E1 = pp. 33-34, 2D1 = pp. xxv-xxvj; cut short occasionally shaving margins, stained or with other traces of use, a number of ff. with loss of text and some clumsily repaired with sellotape).
Mod. calf, spine with 5 raised bands with gilt title. Shabby, "working" copy.
Re-issue of the 1602 ed. of the Dutch version of "Veridicus Christianus" (1601). 93 (of 100) full-page engravings by J. Galle (lacking num. 11, 61, 73, 84, 91, 94, 96). 3 large engravings, incl. a full-page one with a volvelle (moving dial loose). Engraved mark on part-title.
Ref. Bibl. Belg. II:73-74 D-134. - Daly/Dimler (Jesuit emblem) J.155. - DBS II:1846:4. - Imhof (Moretus) D-8. - Landwehr 184.
Joined: Lyftocht, Franciscus, O.S.A. – [Het tweede deel van den] voor-winckel van patientie in den droeven tegenspoedt versien met dichten, sinne-beelden, ende sedighe leeringhen, getrocken uyt [...] den Heylighen Vader Augustinus. Cologne, for A. vanden Eynden (Utrecht), 1681. 8vo (lacking final index f.; top of title cut off with loss of 1st line, title mounted, occasional soiling or dampstaining). Mod. quarter calf, marbled paper on covers. 2nd part (complete in itself) of a very rare two-part emblem book, with pt. 1 publ. Emmerich 1679. Engr. front. and 10 text engravings by G. Bouttats and F. Erfinger. Ref. Landwehr 548. - BCNI 14012. - STCN 066922534 (i.a. BL). - Not in VD-17. Prov. Libr. stamp. (2 vol., sold w.a.f.)