- Frontisp. sl. stained/ dam.; (sl.) (dust)stained/ (finger)soiled throughout; some quires loose. Binding sl. stained/ worn.
= Landwehr 515; Klaversma/ Hannema 981; Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 439.
ADDED: an incomplete copy of H. HUGO, Pia desideria emblematis, elegiis & affectibus SS. Patrum illustrata (Antw. (= Amst.), 1628, woodcut title, 37 full-p. emblematic ills. and 25 vignettes, 19th cent. mor., sm. 8vo. Landwehr 346).
- Hinges weak. Vellum over spine creased; foot of spine dam. Otherwise fine.
= Landwehr 480 and 503; Klaversma/ Hannema 963 and 991-994. Ad 1: Praz p.406. Ad 2: Van Eeghen/ Van der Kellen 435.
- Mediocre copy, waterstained almost throughout, covers loose(ning) and backstrip dam. Sold w.a.f.
= Praz p.413; Landwehr, Roman emblem books 502 (ed. Paris 1655); Cicognara 4722.
- Cut sl. short in outer margin; frontisp. strengthened on verso; occas. lightly stained.
= Praz p.416; Landwehr 550 (ed. Amst., 1659). This ed. not in Waller, Scheurleer etc.
Joseph a S. Barbara. Het geestelyck kaert-spel met herten troef, oft het spel der liefde. Antw., P.J. Rymers, n.d. (±1730), 3rd ed., (8),526,(2)p., 14 engr. plates by F. BOUTTATS, modern private calf, sm. 8vo.
- Lacks engr. title; title-p. w. closed tear and owner's entry/ stamp; cut sl. short in top margin; occas. sl. soiled/ stained.
= Landwehr 393; cf. Praz p.384; Scheepers II, 1115; cf. The Children's World of Learning (1st ed. 1666). Curious love emblem book with hearts as trump cards in a game of love. The very imaginative plates depict i.a. the cards of hearts with miniature views and symbols within the hearts. Approbation dated 1666.
ADDED: a 19th-cent. Dutch bible.
- First free endpaper loose; tiny wormhole in upper inner and lower blank margins throughout.
= The rare first edition. Landwehr 618; De Vries, Emblemata 58; Scheurleer 32.
- Occas. sl. dogeared, otherwise fine.
= De Vries, Emblemata 68; Praz, p. 451; Landwehr 632; cf. Scheurleer p.33; Muller 382; Scheepers 632. Rare.
- Backstrip and joints worn; corners worn/ rubbed. = Landwehr 732. Not in Lipsius/ Leitzmann.
- Sl. browned.
= From the collection of M. Buisman with his owner's entry on first free endpaper. Landwehr 753; Praz p.501.
- Bookplate of C.A. Zaalberg on upper pastedown; sl. yellowed. Otherwise fine.
= Landwehr 754; Praz p.501.
- First free endpaper extensive annot. on the artist; bookplate of H. Boekenogen on upper pastedowns; 2nd vol. hinges broken (contents loosening) and occas. trifle foxed. Nevertheless a fine copy.
= Vol. 1 in the rare first edition (the second ed. was publ. in 1756; the second vol. only published once). Landwehr 757 and 760; Praz p.502. Rare set. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
- Some small stains. Binding trifle soiled.
= Landwehr 757; Praz p.502. The rare first edition.
- Lacks 2 lvs. w. 2 emblems (B10 and C1, emblems no. IX and XI); engr. title-p. reattached along inner margin due to broken upper hinge; crossed out contemp. owner's entry on title.
= Landwehr 813; Praz p.166. The authors are the "Rhetores Coll. Soc. Iesu Anverp."
- Catalogue entry mounted on first free endpaper. Remarkably fine copy.
= The rare first edition of this famous emblem book, enlarged with Van der Veen's popular songbook, with the cancel emblem (emblem XIV). The only edition in 4to format, all the reprints in 8vo size. Landwehr 842; Praz p.522-523; Hollstein XXIV,181; Scheurleer p.156. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CX.
- The cancel emblem XIV removed with sl. damage to the original emblem (= emblem IX); 3 libr. stamps in blank margins; a few occas. small stains. Joints occas. worn/ splitting; spine-ends dam.; corners worn.
= The rare first edition of this famous emblem book, enlarged with Van der Veen's popular songbook. The only edition to contain the captions to the emblems in French as well as in Dutch and the only edition in 4to format, all the reprints in 8vo size. Landwehr 842; Praz p.522-523; Hollstein XXIV,181; Scheurleer p.156. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXI.
- Several ills. sl. crudely (later) handcol.; sl. yellowed, stained and fingersoiled; lacks free endpapers. Binding rubbed and sl. worn; foot of spine chipped.
= Landwehr 851; Praz p.522-523.
Ripa, C. Iconologia, of uytbeeldinge des Verstands (...). Waar in Verscheiden afbeeldingen van Deugden, Ondeugden, Genegentheden, Menschlijcke Hertztochten (...). Een werck dat dienstigh is, allen Reedenaars, Poëten, Schilders, Beeldhouwers, Teyckenaars (...). Ibid., C. Danckerts, n.d. (2nd half 17th cent.), (6),288,(8)p., 16 plates w. 195 engr. emblems by ?, contemp. vellum, sm. 8vo.
- Lacks frontisp.; upper hinge (nearly) broken; lacks pastedowns; yellowed, stained and fingersoiled almost throughout.
= Landwehr 684. Rare edition, intended for young people with an interest in the art of drawing (according to the publisher's introduction).
- Light brown stain in lower blank inner margin from p.80 onwards (only sl. affecting the text, not the ills.); horizontal tear in final preliminary leaf of first work. Good/ fine copy.
= Landwehr 874; Praz 531. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
- Occas. very vaguely foxed. Otherwise contents fine. Frontcover trifle stained.
= Landwehr 882; Schuytvlot 51. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE CXII.
- First work lacks title and 2 textlvs. (A-A2); 2nd work lacks 1 leaf/ emblem; 1 quire loosening; title w. sm. dam. spot and owners' entries; 4th work 1 text-p. w. large horizontal tear; first 3 works partly (sl.) waterstained in (blank) margin(s). Binding sl. soiled/ stained.
= Ad 1: Landwehr 892; Schuytvlot 56; Unger 87. Ad 2: Landwehr 883; Schuytvlot 52; Unger 78. Ad 3: Schuytvlot 62; Unger 101. Ad 4: Schuytvlot 774; Unger 98.
- Second work lacks 1 leaf w. 1st ill. Occas. trifle stained/ soiled. Binding sl. worn; backstrip and letterpiece sl. dam.
= Ad 1: Schuytvlot 57; Unger 89; Landwehr, Emblem Books 739. Ad 2: Schuytvlot 63; Unger 102.
AND 2 others, incl. a duplicate copy of the 2nd work (complete) and J. CATS, Thooneel vande mannelicke achtbaerheyt (The Hague, 1632, 3rd enl. corr. ed., woodcut title-vignette, 4 ½-page engr. ills., contemp. hcalf w. mor. letterpiece, 4to. Sl. wormholed).
- A few lvs. sl. dampstained along fore-edge. Spine-ends chipped.
= Landwehr 900; Praz p.537; Scheurleer, Nederlandsche liedboeken, p.95.