Live auction - Lot 1276
[Emblems]
Zinne-poppen, alle verciert met rijmen, en sommighe met proze door zijn dochter Anna Roemers.
VISSCHER, Roemer
€ 700 / 900
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
Amsterdam, J. van Ravestein, 1669
12mo: [10]-196-[4] ff. (sm. tear in f. O7, ff. P11-12 soiled).
Later vellum (spotting), flat spine titled in ink. Good copy.
Fourth edition (1st 1614) of this emblematic collection of short moral pieces by the Amsterdam merchant and poet R. Visscher (1547-1620). Illustrated with engr. title, a full-page plate showing a jester and 193 nice emblematic engr. plates. This emblem book, one of the most famous, best and amusing of the Dutch Golden Age, is divided in three parts, or "Schocken"; each "Schock" contains 61 engr. plates with a title in Dutch or Latin and a 2-verse caption. At the end , 10 added "Minne-poppen". With laudatory poems by Cats and Vondel in preface.
Ref. Landwehr (Low Countries) 874. - Emblem books Leiden 516. - Praz 531 (note). - STCN (i.a. BL).
Bound with: Id. - Brabbelingh. Ibid., 1669. 212-[4 bl.] pp. Second edition (1st 1614) of this collection of poems, often bound after the "Zinne-poppen". Containing "quicken" (epigrams, after Martial), "tuyters" (sonnets), "jammertjens" (elegies), "rommelsoo", "tepel-wercken" and riddles, but also poems by H.L. Spiegel (1549-1612), a good friend of Visscher, and also a member of the prominent Amsterdam chamber of rhetoric De Eglantier. Woodcut mark on title. Ref. STCN (i.a. BL).