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Emblemata selectiora : typis elegantissimis expressa, nec non sententiis, carminibus, historiis ac proverbiis, ex scriptoribus cum sacris tum profanis, antiquis & recentioribus, illustrata ..

by: Plaats, Franciscus van der; Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637

Publication date: 1704

Topics: Emblems, Emblems -- Early works to 1800

Publisher: Amstelaedami : Apud Franciscum vander Plaats

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin

Item Size: 170.1M

Signatures:*² A-I K²

Engraved title vignette (printer's device); decorative initial

Each plate followed by descriptive text

Plates, with mottoes in Latin and Dutch, appeared previously in F. Egger's Elegantissimorum emblematum corpusculum, 1696, and, later, in Acht en dertig zinnebeelden, 1737. Cf. Landwehr

Thirty-eight circular copperplate engravings attributed by Landwehr to Crispyn de Passe the Elder

Landwehr, J. Emblem books in the Low Countries

Landwehr, J. Emblem and fable books (3rd ed.)

Bound in mottled calf; spine tooled in gilt; label with gilt title on spine; gilt rules on boards; edges stained red

Signatures:*² A-I⁴ K²

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1887

[4], 76 p., 38 leaves of plates : 27 cm. (4to)