Author: DE PONTE, Ludovicus ( Luis de la PUENTE ) - Christoffel van SICHEM ( illustrator ) :
Title: Der zielen lust-hof , inhoudende I. het leven ende lijden onses Heeren Jesu Christi, met meditatien daer op. II. de wercken der apostelen, III de openbaringe van St. Jan,... Alles in drie hondert schoone Figuyren, ghesneden door C.v.Sichem, voor P.I. Paets seer constigh afgebeelt.
Description: .: #Loven ( Leuven ) , By Isbrandt Jacobsz[oon] ( fictitious ), voor P.I. Paets ( Amsterdam ), 1629, in-8°, 17 x 11 cm, 455 lvs : 39 (unnumbered) + 416 numbered), ( complete). With 300 woodcut illustrations cut by Christoffel van Sichem II from designs by Maarten van Heemskerck and Jan van der Straet ( Stradanus ) for the Apostles and after Albrecht Dürer for the Apocalyps. Bound in contemporary full calf , edges painted red. Binding with minimal traces of use. Outer lower joint cracked but holding together. Title page a bit dustsoiled. Some of the illustrations have some old (rather crude) colouring. Very fine copy. From the library of the Jesuit College of Halle ( south of Brussels). With a manuscript ex-libris in the upper margin of the title page.. The printer's name Isbrandt Jacobsz. is only known from the title page of this book. It is a fictitious name used by the Amsterdam publisher Pieter Jakobsz. Paets ( see Delsaerdt, Suam Quisque... pp. 351 note 2). The publisher Paets ( 1587 - 1657 ?) worked closely together with C. van Sichem II. For the woodcuts of van Sichem II ( 1586 - 1658) see Hollstein ( Dutch ) Sichem II - 47. .

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