Author: HUGO Hermannus (1588 - 1629) - Justus de HARDUYN ( 1582 - 1636 ) - Boëtius à BOLSWERT ( Illustrator ) :
Title: GODDELYCKE WENSCHEN, verlicht met sinne-beelden, Ghedichten en vierighe uyt-spraecken der oud-vaeders. Naer-ghevolgt de Latynsche vanden Eerw. P.Hermannus Hugo, Priester der Societeyt Iesu door Justus de Harduyn
Description: .: T'Hantwerpen (Antwerpen) .by Hendrick Aertssens inde Cammerstrate in de Witte Lelie, 1629, small in-8°, 15,3 x 9,3 cm, (16) nn pp ; with engraved title & engraved frontispiece + 604 pp + (8) pp with 45 fullpage copper engravings printed on recto of leaf only (outside the pagination). Complete, no provenance indication. Bound in full supple vellum with yabbed edges. First edition of the translation by Harduyn in Dutch of the most influential emblem books ever printed.: Pia desideria by H. Hugo. Harduyn translated the Latin of Hugo into Dutch renaissancistic texts along counter reformation lines. The plates are by Boetius à Bolswert. See De Vries N° 129, Landwehr N°357, Funck pp.338. .

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