Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co

Date:
c.1941
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/14/31
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 50: Marks and Co. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 84, CHARING Cross RoaD, LONDON, W.C.2. 35 EMBLEMS. - ALCIATI (ANDREZ) OMNIA EMBLEMATA, cum COMMENTARIS, quibus emblematum detecta origine, dubia omnia, et obscura illustrantur, adjectaa Novm APPENDICES nus- quam antea edite per CLAUD. MINOEM, engraved title containing a portrait of Alciati by JACQUES DE WEERTZ, and 211 fine emblematic woodcuts, each within ornamental borders, thick 8vo., contemp. vellum, Paris, 1602 ($10) £2/10/- Fine copy of.a rare edition. ; AMORIS DIVINI ET HUMANI ANnTIPATHIA, sive effectus varii, e variis Sacre Scrip ture locis deprompti, emblematis suis expressi SS. PP. Authoritatibus, nec non Gallicis, ispanicis, et Flandricis versibus illustrati, Ep1Tro TERTIA, aucta et recognita, engraved title, plate of arms, and 83 fine plates of emblems, sm. 8vo., vellum, CHEESY Reel ; < jhEi-/- [ANEAU or ANULUS (Bart.)] PicTa Possis, ut PICTURA POESIS ERIT, FIRST EDITION, 107 fine small emblematic woodcuts and tailpieces, printer’s device on title, 12mo., old half calf, Lugduni, 1552 5 3 ($5) £1/5/- Old autograph and scribbling on title and last leaf ; Lower corners of text waterstained. One of the woodcuts (page 75) represents a game of Tennis. BRUCK (Jacos A) EMBLEMATA POLITICA, engraved title and 54 circular copper-plate emblems, sm. 4to., contemp. vellum, blind stamped borders with religious emblems, Argentorati, 1618 ($5) £1/5/- Some pages browned. CATS (Jacos) Huwe.yk, dat is HET GANTSCHE BELEYT des ECHTEN STaaTs ; Afgedeelt in zes HOOFDSTUKKEN.; MAEGT, VRYSTER, BRUYT, VROUWE, MOEDER, WEDUWE, engraved title, folding plate showing outdoor sports, and 36 copper-cuts of emblems, sm. 8vo., old calf (some leaves waterstained), Amsterdam, 1779 ($2.40) 12/- EMBLEMATA AMATORIA, Text in Dutch, Latin, and French; engraved title and 29 (should be 30) fine copperplate engravings of emblems, oblong sm. 4to., modern cloth boards, Amsterdam, 1618 ($5) £1/5/- Lacks plate xxviii and its leaf of text. Plate xi shews figure of a female playing on the Virginals. EMBLEMATA POLITICA, in aula magna curiae Norimbergensis depicta [a P. IssEL- BURG elegentur aeri incisa], engraved title and 32 fine copperplate emblems, sm. 4to., old half calf, without Place, Printer or Date [1617] ; ($8.40) £2/2/- The Engraved Dedication bears the date 1617. Peter Isselburg, German engraver, was born at Cologne about 1580; probably a pupil of Crispin van de Pass. He worked in his native city till 1612, then at Nuremberg ; died 1630. His work included some plates after Rubens and Gortzius Geldorp. FAERNUS (GasrIEL) FABULM CENTUM, ex Antiquis Auctoribus Delecte, engraved title and 100 full-page emblems (ascribed to the designs of TITIAN), sm. 4to., old vellum, gilt border on sides, Rome, 1565 ($8.40) £2/2/- Some scribblings on title-page and 2 other pages, also a few stains. HEINSIUS (DanizL) LoF-SANck van JEsus Curistus, Amsterdam, Willem Blaev, [1618] —NEDERDUYTSCHE PoEMaTA ; [Het AMBACHT van CUPIDO ; SPIEGEL van de DOooRLUCH- TIGE; HyMNus oft Lor-SANCK van BACcHus], engraved title and 72 fine spirited etchings, tbid., Willem Fanssen, 1618 ; 2 vols in 1, sm. 4to., half calf, Amsterdam, 1618 ($6) £1/10/- [HORAPOLLO or HORUS APOLLO] Or: ApoLiinis Niviact, DE SACRIS NOTIS & SCULPTURIS libri duo, . . . quibus accessit versio recens, per Jo. MERCETUM concinnata, et observationes non infrugifere, (Gr. et Lat.), with 195 finely executed hieroglyphical wood engravings, sm. 8vo., contemp. mottled calf, Paristis, facobum Kerver (excudebat G. Morelius), 1551 ($8.40) £2/2/- Good copy with the final leaf containing printer’s woodcut device. ** Cetté édition, qui se trouve difficilement, est ornée de trés-jolies gravures en bois. . . . — BRUNET. HUSENBETH (Ff. C.) Emsiems of Saints : By which they are distinguished in Works of Art, THIRD and Best EDITION, edited by AuGustus JEssopr [with two Appendices : ICONOGRAPHY of the SyBILs, by W. MARSH ; SACRED HERALDRY and ARMS APPROPRIATED to SAINTS], with cuts of the coats of arms in colour, 8vo., cloth, SCARCE, Norwich, 1882 ($10) £2/10/- 99 Fore blank margins of two leaves badly opened.
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