Recht ghebruyck ende misbruyck/ van tydlycke have [...], [trsl. from the Latin D.V. Coornhert].

Leiden, Chr. Plantin, 1585

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Description du lot

4to: [40] ff., text pp. numbered 27-[1] (some thumbing, hole in Pl. XIX).

Mod. blind-tooled calf “à l’antique”. Good copy.

1 of 3 issues of the Dutch trsl. by D.V. Coornhert (1522-1590) of the Neo-Latin emblem book “De rerum usu et abusu” of the Frisian humanist B. Furmer(i)us. Engr. Latin title + 25 engravings by Wierix with Latin texts (verso blank). Woodcut mark on Dutch title. “Engravings with Latin text inserted into the gatherings of the Dutch text; different type-settings if the gatherings with Latin text are used indiscriminately in various copies” (STCN). Ref. Voet (Plantin Press) 1229 (var. III). - B.B. I:710 C-57. - Landwehr 177. - Embl. bks Leiden 168. - Mauquoy-Hendrickx (Wierix) 2289-2314. - Carter/Vervliet (Civilité) 355. - STCN 840904657. - Not in Adams, Sorgeloos, Typogr. Bat.

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