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VAN HAECHT GOIDTSENHOVEN, Laurens

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Description du lot

Amsterdam, D. Pietersz. Pers, 1608

4to: [5]-71 (of 74) ff. (missing ff. E2-3 and Q1; some esp. marginal repairs i.a. to quire N, wormtrack in ff. O4-R2 reaching upper part of text and engr., some staining and soiling, a few sm. holes).

Old marbled sheep (sl. rubbed, some tears), blind-stamped spine with 5 raised bands (joints rubbed, sm. def. at head & tail). Acceptable copy.

Second Dutch edition of a rare Renaissance Latin emblem book by Laurentius Haechtanus (Mechelen 1527-1603 Antwerp). 1st publ. in 1579 as "Mikrokosmos. Parvus Mundus", trsl. in Dutch by Jan Moerman (1st 1584, Plantin) and adapted by Vondel in his "Gulden winckel" (1613). Engr. ill.: title by C.J. Visscher and 71 (of 74) engr. by Gerard de Jode. The text and pl. are unchanged from the 1584 Antwerp edition except for the new engr. title.
Ref. Landwehr (Low Countries) 564. - Emblem books Leiden 366. - Praz 427. - Simoni (BL) M-124. - STCN (i.a. BL).
Prov. J.H. Pels (loose mod. bookpl.).

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