Author: Brune,Johan de
Title: VAN'T BANKKET-WERK van Goede gedagten Het eerste Deel [ + ] Het tweede Deel [ +] Met een gemeyne Blad-wijser achter het tweede Deel
Description: Middelburg, Jaques Fierens 1660 woodcut to titlepage of "Spe & Metu" [Hope & Fear] plus a Basilike signed I.C.I. in the cut + copperplate portrait of Joh.de Brune cropped to lower margin . TWO PARTS IN ONE VOLUME Octavo contemporary laced through vellum [top left worn and torn, rest a bit soiled and manuscript title faded] Titlepage printed in red & black with licence to print to verso + [13pp=dedication +laudatory poems + [1p=portrait] +496pp Part II [24pp=title to part 2 +to the reader +laudatory poems] +495pp which includes 56 page index. Approx.6 pages with tiny ink sprinkles not affecting legibility and one clean tear without loss to page 239/240. Otherwise a clean tight copy with a modern bookplate & a 19th century bookseller's label to front pastedown. A Banquet of good thoughts with hundreds of short paragraphs, some partly in verse, under different heading with a good index. De Brune was a Dutch golden age poet and writer, most noted for his 1624 "Emblemata of Zinne-werck".

Keywords: thoughts


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