Category: Emblem Books

Modern Hieyoglypics [sic] of The Apocalypse and Great Pyramid

By: A Watcher [probably a Mrs. Worsley]

Price: $850.00

Publisher: London, Jones & Cuthbertson : 1878

Seller ID: 002123

Condition: Very Good

A quirky, present-time take on the Book of Revelations and its apocalyptic prophecies, with imagery that is minutely conceived, detailed, and paradoxically, rather cheery notwithstanding its grim intent. The work might fairly be categorized as an emblem book. Given the highly symbolic nature of Revelations, even to the literalist, this is scarcely a stretch. In terms of actual content, the book purports to predict events that will befall mankind in the near future -- four years into the future from 1878 and the Congress of Berlin as a starting date. To what degree the author actually believ...
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Evangeliorum Dominicalium Summaria sanctorumq historiae, paucissimis verbis expressae: iuxta Kalendarium Romanum; cum iconibus in aere excusis.

By: Borcht, Petrus van der, engraver. Paul Uten Waele, designer.

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Antwerp, Christophe Plantin : 1584

Seller ID: 005077

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Scarce miniature emblem book -- or really iconology book -- with only three copies located on OCLC First Search. 32mo. 112 by 58 mm. Two parts in one. Content only on rectos, but pagination also on versos. 464, 111 pp. In total, 285 copperplate engravings, each about two-thirds of the page, with a heading above, and a short text, or long caption, beneath, the vignette image. Images are of scenes from the life of Christ and the New Testament or from the lives of the saints, with ordering in accordance with saints' days on the calendar. Restoration to spine extremities and joints. Still...
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Sinnreiche Werke und Gedichte, Aus dem Niederlandischen ubersetzt (Six parts in three volumes)

By: Cats, Jacob

Price: $2,500.00

Publisher: Hamburg, Thomas von Wierings : 1710 - 1714

Seller ID: 001702

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

An emblem book from a Dutch master! 8vo. Abundantly illustrated, with 39 engraved plates, eight of which are folding and 168 text engravings. The set includes Cats' most famous and beloved works, some of which became deeply etched into the national consciousness, including "Sinn und Liebes=Bildern", "Josephs Selbst Streit", Der Mannlichen Achtbarkeit", "Heuraht", "Galathea", "Spiegel der alten und neuen Zeit", "Frau=Ring" containing "Der Welt Anfang/Mittel und Ende", "Alterthum/Land und Garten=Leben", "Aspasia", ...
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Het Voorhof der Ziele

By: De Hooghe, Romein, illustrator. Hoogstraeten, Frans Van

Price: $1,750.00

Publisher: Rotterdam, Fransois van Hoogstraeten : 1668

Seller ID: 001938

Binding: Full Vellum

Condition: Very Good

4to. 18.5 by 14 cm. [16], 199, [9] pp. With title and 60 additional high Baroque copper engravings, slightly over half-page in size, by de Hooghe. Landwehr 325. Each emblem with a Dutch caption and either Latin or Spanish (one in Italian) caption as well, followed by Dutch verse. The title might be translated as "Fore-court of Souls". This was the first book illustrated by de Hooghe. Contemporary or near contemporary vellum. Large tornado shaped stain on rear board top to bottom. A few more modest stains elsewhere on binding, and some light soiling. Occasional stains within....
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Idea de un Principe Politico Christiano Reresentada en cien empresas

By: de Saavedra Faxardo, Don Diego (1584-1648)

Price: $1,450.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Ioh. Ianssonium Iuniorem : 1659

Seller ID: 002169

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

12mo., 14 by 8 cm. [24, ]835 pp., with 103 emblems plus title illustration sharply and minutely etched, and including title. This is more than title suggests. Text proper has in actuality 101 symbols and thus emblems, plus there is an additional emblem in the prelims and one at the end of the work. This is a Latin translation of the Spanish original. The contemporary vellum has some soiling, especially where creased on the spine, but still attractive and a bright patina survives. A light dampstaining affects some leaves. Overall the leaves are Pages 793/4 have an archival repair of a s...
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Doctrine des Moeurs, Qui Represents en Cent Tableaux

By: Gomberville, Marin Le Roy de

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Paris, A. Soubron : 1683

Seller ID: 001262

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

[14], 412 pp. + 100 emblem plates, all full page. 12mo., 6 by 4 inches. Decorative devices, head and foot pieces throughout in the form of bouquets, friezes, vases, baskets, as well as decorated letter at the beginning of each section (100 in all). Plates are wonderful baroque woodcuts each illustrating a moral. This would appear to be a second or third edition, the first being in 1646. Brunet II 1658, who describes the work as "now a bit rare", mentions a 1684 edition without citing this earlier one (and clearly meaning a different edition). Graesse III 114 mentions a 1681 edit...
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Tafereelen Der Eerste Christenen, Bestaande in 92 Konst-Prenten van Jan Luiken, Berymt door Pr. Langendyk en Cl. Bruin

By: Luiken, Jan [spelled more commonly Luyken], illustrator. Pr. [Pieter] Langendyk and Cl. [Class] Bruin

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Barend Visscher : 1722

Seller ID: 001948

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

8vo. Unpaginated, but 92 leaves, with an illustration covering about two-thirds of every recto, for a total of 92 illustrations of lives of the early Christians, with plenty of gore, torture, and gladiatorial action to make the blood curdle and speak to those with an aversion for the purely devotional. The imagery is well within the tradition of high Dutch Baroque and in this, transcends the subject matter or not infrequently, ties in the subject matter with contemporary Dutch life. Not in Brunet or Landwehr. Some occasional light foxing but mostly clean. Tight. Calf boards appear to hav...
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Image for Vorsteliicke Warande der Dieren. De Helden Godes des Ouwden Verbonds. De Heerlyckheyd van Salomon. Hierusalem Verwoest. De Vernieuwde Gulden Winckel der Kunstlievende Nederlands. (Five works bound in one)

Vorsteliicke Warande der Dieren. De Helden Godes des Ouwden Verbonds. De Heerlyckheyd van Salomon. Hierusalem Verwoest. De Vernieuwde Gulden Winckel der Kunstlievende Nederlands. (Five works bound in one)

By: Van den Vondel, Joost. Emblems by Marcus Gheeraerts, G. de Jode, etc.

Price: $4,500.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, D. Pietersz : 1617-1622

Seller ID: 001946

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good

Vorsteliicke Warande with 125 half-page copper engraved emblem plates; De Helden Godes, with vignette title and 38 copper engraved biblical emblems; De Wiernieuwde Gulden Winckel with vignette title and 73 half-page copper engraved biblical emblems. The two other works with vignett title and letterpieces. Emblems of Vorteliicke Warande especially charming, with most portraying animals with anthropomorphic brio. Landwehr 886, 877. This set has bookplate from Landwehr and was his personal copy. Calf spine dry and rough. Joints dry, rubbed and cracked. Interior is tight and attractive.
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Emblemes d'Amour en Quatre Langue. Emblemata Amatoria.

By: Vianen, Jan van, illustrator. Philip Ayres, engraver

Price: $2,750.00

Publisher: Londe (London), "Chez l'Amoureux"

Seller ID: 005712

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

14.5 by 10 cm. With 45 copper engraved plates, including title plate. Text rendered in French, Latin, Dutch and Italian on facing pages to plates. Title written in ink on spine. A bit of grime on the spine's vellum, and less so on the boards. Moderate age toning to the leaves' perimeters. Vellum edges exposed on inside of boards. Soiling to the page edges. Some finger smudges in margins. Inscription dated 1882 on FFEP.
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Category: Emblem Books