BURG, HERMANUS VAN DEN,

Verzameling van uitgekorene zin-spreuken, en zinnebeeldige print-vercieringen, eertyds, op bevel van den aller doorlugtigsten Keizer der Russen, Peter Alexis, of de Grote, getekent en gesneden; En nu op nieus verrykt met agthondert en veertig byschriften in Verzen door Hermanus van den Burg.

Haarlem, Johannes Marshoorn, 1743, 4to., full leather binding with ribbed spine and goldtooling, red coloured edges, [10]+281+[10] pp., worn binding with faded leather along the edges and the corners, and with the leather and some of the cords broken along the front hinge. The endpapers are somewhat fragile, buth the sewing is still intact and the construction of the bookblock solid. Clear printwork with minimal staining to the pages (mostly limited to the first and last few pages). Complete with half title, frontispiece, titlepage with decorative vignette and 140 plates depicting 840 emblems accompanied by multilingual captions (Dutch, Latin, French and German) on the textpage next to it and a verse in Dutch. The numbering of the emblems on the last few page is a bit jumbled, but all 840 emblems are present. There are notes in pencil in the front (one presumably by J.W.Six (1872-1936) judging by his Ex libris: "Ex bibliotheca J.W. SIx").

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Book number: 70377

Catalogue: Emblemata Literature

HUGO, HERMANNUS,

Pia Desiderius tribus libris comprehensa. Quorum continet: I. Gemitus Animae poenitentis, II. Vota Animae sanctae, III. Suspira Animae Amantis (... ). Editio quinta, correctior & elegantior.

Cologne (Coloniae), Sumptibus Engelberti Theodori Kinchi, 1694, 12mo., full parchment spitsel binding with yap edges, red sprinkled edges, 24+240 pp., exposes board on the inside of the covers, but otherwise the construction and sewing are solid, there are slits for closure ribbons, but the ribbons are missing, some stains on the parchment and some damage to the parchment on the front cover, some sign of worming on the first few pages (no loss of text), some contemporary (1740, 1752 and later) ownership signatures and notes in ink on the page preceding the titlepage, with library stamp on frontispiece and the page before that (Biblioth.Conge. Miss. Dom. Colon.). With engraved frontispiece, decorative woodcut endpieces, strewn with engraved emblems. Other editions were printed in Amsterdam, Utrecht or Antwerp and are present in the STCN, this edition was printed in Cologne (according to the titlepage) and is not mentioned in the STCN. l 5th edition

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Book number: 70186

Catalogue: Emblemata Literature