79 2725 Egmond Leyden J van 
79 2725 Egmond Leyden J van 
79 2725 Egmond Leyden J van 
79 2725 Egmond Leyden J van 
- Tipped-in annots. by Van den Broek on upper pastedown. Otherwise fine.
= The first Dutch edition. Haitsma Mulier/ Van der Lem 155b. Provenance: the collection A.M. van den Broek.
79 2726 Egypt Lobo J 
- New endpapers; first 4 lvs. sl. frayed/ fingersoiled/ waterstained. Restored binding w. use of contemp. calf.
= Very rare. Second edition of the English translation. Cf. Hilmy p.390 (1st ed., 1669). SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
79 2727 Elzevier and annexes Cluverius P 
79 2727 Elzevier and annexes Cluverius P 
- Bookblock loose; lacks free endpapers; partly sl. wormholed/ waterst. = Willems 309; Rahir 278.
Péréfixe, H. de Beaumont de. Histoire du roy Henry le Grand. Amst., L. and D. Elzevier, 1661, (12),522p., woodcut printer's mark on title-p., engr. title-p., contemp. gilt calf, 12mo.
- Cut sl. short in top margin. Lacks letterpiece.
= Willems 1272 note; Rahir 1309. Esteemed history of Henry the Great, written by Péréfixe for Louis XIV. Quérard IV, p.30: "Cet ouvrage, l'un des derniers mémoires sortis de sa plume, dans lequel il combattait des écrivains en réputation et des opinions en crédit, est un de ceux qui lui ont fait le plus d'honneur (...)." Second Elzevier edition of this work, identified i.a. by the point that the last line of the first paragraph on p.194 has the words "gens de guerre" instead of "guerre" only.
79 2728 Elzevier and annexes Le Jolle P 
79 2728 Elzevier and annexes Le Jolle P 
- Frontisp. sl. wormholed; owner's entry on title-p. Otherwise fine.
= Nijhoff/ Van Hattum 189; Willems 1756; Rahir 2279; De Vries 169-171; Gay/ Lemonnyer I, p.876: "Ce volume est recherché des bibliophiles qui le placent dans la collection elzévirienne. Le nom de l'auteur est sans doute un pseudonyme; on croit qu'il s'appelait Pierre Langle. Il dédie son livre "à très-vilains, très-sales, très-lourds, très-malpropres et très-ignorants messieurs les boueurs et cureurs des canaux d'Amsterdam. - La lecture du volume est assez amusante."
Secundus, J. Opera. Ed. P. Scriverius. Leyden, F. Hegerus (= Ph. de Croy), 1631, (28),384,(1)p., engr. title, portrait, later giltlettered hcalf, 12mo.
- Some contemp. annots. on prelim. lvs.; receding waterstain on final lvs. Sl. worn along edges.
= Willems 1669 note; Rahir 1849. The third edition (first edition published in Leyden, 1612). "L'édition de 1651 reproduit textuellement la précédente [= ed. 1631], elle a le même titre gravé et le même portrait, mais elle est plus jolie et son format se rapproche davantage de l'in-12 elzevirien." (Willems).
79 2729 Emblemata Beza T 
79 2729 Emblemata Beza T 
- Fine copy, occas. cut trifle short in top margin.
= Two near contemp. owner's entries on title-p.: "Sum Samuelis Gessinij" and "10 Parijs Franc. Nund.[?] Vernalis Anno 1615". Adams/ Rawles/ Saunders F.106 (state 2); Landwehr 156a; Renouard 1598, no.4; cf. Praz p.270 note. The first edition of Beza's collected poetry.
BOUND WITH: Lipsius, J. De Constantia libri duo. Antw., Ex Officina Plantiniana, J. Mortus, 1605, (16),86,(10)p., engr. printer's mark.
- Occas. unobtrusive contemp. underlining and annots. (partly in red pencil); final quire yellowed; cut sl. short (affecting the glosses). Otherwise fine.
79 2730 Emblemata Boissard J J 
79 2730 Emblemata Boissard J J 
79 2730 Emblemata Boissard J J 
- Lacks 5 leaves w. 5 emblems (p.3-4 and p.97-104); occas. sl. foxed; later endpapers. Vellum soiled.
= Landwehr 133; Adams B2324.
79 2731 Emblemata Broeckhoff J P 
79 2731 Emblemata Broeckhoff J P 
79 2731 Emblemata Broeckhoff J P 
79 2731 Emblemata Broeckhoff J P 
- Endpapers partly browned from turn-ins.
= From the library of Bob Luza with his bookplate on upper pastedown. Landwehr 80. First and only edition.
79 2732 Emblemata Brontius N 
79 2732 Emblemata Brontius N 
- Ad 1: occas. trifle foxed/ fingersoiled in margins; title-p. sl. soiled and worn in lower blank corner w. sm. dam. spot; old owner's initials on title-p.; occas. sl. wormholed; lacks free endpapers. Ad 2: lacks 2 leaves (G1 (w. woodcut) and G8); one leaf sm. tear (just touching text); occas. contemp. annots.; occas. sl. wormholed; a few leaves trifle foxed; final leaf stained. Frontcover loose; spine-ends dam.
= Ad 1: extremely rare, the first attempt in the Low Countries to publish an emblem book (not in Landwehr, which begins with emblemata published from 1542 onwards). Belgica Typogr. 423; Adams B-2900; BM Dutch, p.42. Ad 2: Belgica Typogr. 422; Adams B-2899; BM Dutch, p.42. Rarely found together in one volume.
79 2733 Emblemata Brouërius van Niedek M 
79 2733 Emblemata Brouërius van Niedek M 
79 2733 Emblemata Brouërius van Niedek M 
- Binding heavily worn. Contents fine.
= Landwehr 82; Praz 436. The second, enlarged edition. Bound in at the end: "Bedenkingen over verscheide godsdienstige en zedelyke onderwerpen, in zinnebeeldige vertoogen voorgesteld, voornaamelyk ten gevolge der aankomende jeugd. Uit het Engelsch overgezet."
79 2734 Emblemata Bruck Angermundt J von 
79 2734 Emblemata Bruck Angermundt J von 
79 2734 Emblemata Bruck Angermundt J von 
- Lacks final 16p. w. 4 emblems; upper corner of engr. title folded and frayed; occas. sl. foxed.
= Praz p.287. The first edition of this rare emblem book.
79 2735 Emblemata Brune J de 
- Catalogue entry mounted on upper pastedown; free endpaper partly browned; lower hinge weak. Otherwise a very fine copy on thick paper.
= The actual 3rd edition (the title mentioning the 2nd). Landwehr 88; Praz p.288. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
79 2736 Emblemata Brune J de 
79 2736 Emblemata Brune J de 
79 2736 Emblemata Brune J de 
- Inner margin waterstained throughout; occas. sl. fingersoiled; final quire and index (sl.) yellowed.
= Unchanged reprint of the third edition. Landwehr 90; Praz p.288; Hendriks and Mateboer p.52 on the probable publication date of ±1661. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.
79 2737 Emblemata Burg H van den 
79 2737 Emblemata Burg H van den 
- Lacks final 2 index leaves; frontisp. (dust)stained and sl. fingersoiled in lower blank margin/ outer corner; preliminary leaves loose(ning); some plates in weak impression; occas. (sl.) soiled/ (water)stained.
= Landwehr 92; Praz p.292.
79 2738 Emblemata Burgundia A à 
79 2738 Emblemata Burgundia A à 
79 2738 Emblemata Burgundia A à 
- Lacks 6 lvs. w. emblems (A2, A7, C3, C4, D3 and D5) (all supplied in ms. copy w. detailed drawings of the missing emblems); C5 and C6 loose; hinges weak. Binding sl. worn along extremities.
= The second edition of this rare emblem work (1st ed. publ. 1631). The work is made up of two parts: the first deals with the vices of speech (loquaciousness, deception, insults, vulgarity, false testimony, etc.) and the second proposes remedies. Our copy with blank leaf A8 (p.15-16) which was often taken out by the printer and with the often missing leaf B4 (w. the emblem showing the barrels). Landwehr 96; Praz p.292.
79 2739 Emblemata Castro J a 
79 2739 Emblemata Castro J a 
- Narrow blank strip of top margin of frontisp. cut off. Gilt on backstrip sl. worn.
= Landwehr 102; De Vries 230 (w. erroneous collation).
79 2740 Emblemata David J 
79 2740 Emblemata David J 
- The plates only (Latin captions only (the Dutch and French captions below cut off).
= Cf. Landwehr 184; Praz 313; De Backer I, 251. The plates from either the original Latin edition (1601) or the first Dutch translation of David's Veridicus Christianus (1602-1603). The engravings were probably also published separately, which may account for the laid down plates. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CIX.
79 2741 Emblemata Drexel J 
- Lacks one plate ("S"); one quire loosening; library stamp on title-p.; upper hinge weak.
= A religious A.B.-book, with accompanying emblematic engravings. De Backer and Sommervogel III, 192, no.11 (this edition); cf. Landwehr 254 (804 pages); Jantz 864; Praz, p.320 (1629 ed.). A well-illustrated edition of this curious and scarce work on depravity in language, arranged in alphabetical order. Each aspect of corrupted speech (e.g., blasphemy, calumny, chatter, drunken speech, lying and swearing) is illustrated by one emblem in its place in the alphabetical catalogue of misuse.
AND 1 other by the same: Tobias morali doctrtina illustratus (Antw., 1652, engr. title, contemp. vellum, 12mo.).
79 2742 Emblemata Graauwhart H 
79 2742 Emblemata Graauwhart H 
- Second work sl. yellowed; 1st work occas. sl. stained/ fingersoiled. Vellum sl. darkened.
= Ad 1: Landwehr 251. Ad 2: Landwehr 257. The continuation (in 2nd ed.?) to Landwehr 252 ("Eerste deel"), complete work in itself.
79 2743 Emblemata Haeften B 
- Yellowed throughout (occas. sl. browned); some foxing; upper pastedown sl. wormholed. Binding rubbed; corners showing.
= Landwehr 271; Praz p.361; BCNI 8834.
79 2744 Emblemata Heinsius D 
79 2744 Emblemata Heinsius D 
- Lacks one leaf with ill. (P2) in Nederduytse Poemata; one leaf lacks sm. blank section of lower margin; occas. sl. stained; hinges weak.
= From the library of Roberto Almagia (bookplate on upper pastedown). Contains, apart from the Lof-Sanck and the Nederduytsche Poemata, the following divisional titles: Het ambacht van Cupido; Emblemata amatoria; Spiegel vande Doorluchtige, eerlicke, cloucke, deuchtsame ende verstandige Vrouwen (...) and Hymnus van Bacchus, Waer in 't gebruyck ende misbruyck vande Wijn beschreven wort. Contains a fine portrait of an inebriated Bacchus. Extremely rare first collected edition, only traced in Scheepers I, 355 ("Zeldzame uitgave") and one copy (of this obl. 16mo edition) in STCN. For the 8vo edition (w. 301p.) see Praz p.366, Landwehr 296 and De Vries, Emblemata 32.