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 x 9 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. Old half leather, smooth back with two labels. (Small damage at top turn in, but still a good binding). First edition of the translation by Harduyn. A copy of one of the most influential emblem books ever printed. The plates are by Boetius à Bolswert. From the library of C.P. Serrure, with his name in manuscript on the flyleaf. See De Vries N° 129, Landwehr N°357, Funck pp.338. .

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