Author: PASSE, Crispijn de (the elder).
Title: Duodecim Sibyllarum imagines in aes eleganter incisae: additae insuper singularum breves descriptiones. Una cum praecipuis oraculorum mysteriis versibus expressis.Arnhem, Jan Jansz. of Arnhem, 1615. Folio (36.5×26 cm). With 12 full-page numbered engravings of sibyls drawn by Crispijn de Passe the elder and engraved by him, his children Simon, Magdalena, and Crispijn the younger, and Crispijn van den Queborn. The sibyls are portrayed half-length, each with a 4-line caption in Latin. Disbound. Preserved in a modern portfolio in a maroon half morocco slipcase.
Description: [25], [1 blank] pp.Arnhem issue of the rare first edition of a beautiful set of 12 prints of sibyls with a letterpress title-page in Latin, a letterpress note about each sibyl in Latin and French on the facing page, and a Latin note to the reader above the note about the first sibyl. Although the title-page mentions only Crispijn de Passe (the elder), he made the series together with other members of the his family (Simon, Magdalena and Crispijn the younger) and his student Crispijn van den Queborn. In very good condition and with wide margins, only slightly trimmed at the head and foot and untrimmed at the fore-edge, preserving the deckles.l KVK/WorldCat (3 copies of Arnhem issue & 4 of Utrecht issue); Veldman, Crispijn de Passe and his progeny, p. 182, 469.

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