Jacob CATS, Caspar BARLEUS
Faces augustae a Casparo Barleo et Cornelio Boyo
Apud Johannem Elsevirium|Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden] • (Leyde) [Leiden] 1656|17 x 22 cm|relié
New edition, and first Elzevier, after the original published at Dordrecht in 1643. Dedication to Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia. Title-page in red and black.
Binding in full worn yellow temporary cardboard. Red morocco title-label. Rubbing exposing the cardboard at joints, headcaps, corners and edges. External edges and corners bumped
Collection of poetry on marriage composed for the future wedding of Elizabeth of Bohemia. This queen, then aged 25, had studied philosophy from her earliest youth - Descartes, whom she had chosen as her master, dedicated The Principles of Philosophy to her with this praise: "The first and most learned of his disciples" - and feared that her approaching nuptials would harm her studies. The work contains 14 poems in verse on marriage, all in a rather satirical and comic vein (the union of Adam and Eve, polygamy...), 9 by Caspar Barleus, 4 by Boyus and one by Cats, who undertook to produce the edition. This is followed by a section consisting of philosophical dialogues on the virtues of marriage and weddings. As a historical note, Elizabeth's union was a failure, and the Queen of Bohemia chose to end her days as an abbess in a Protestant monastery. The whole forms a quite remarkable curiosity.
Binding in full worn yellow temporary cardboard. Red morocco title-label. Rubbing exposing the cardboard at joints, headcaps, corners and edges. External edges and corners bumped
Collection of poetry on marriage composed for the future wedding of Elizabeth of Bohemia. This queen, then aged 25, had studied philosophy from her earliest youth - Descartes, whom she had chosen as her master, dedicated The Principles of Philosophy to her with this praise: "The first and most learned of his disciples" - and feared that her approaching nuptials would harm her studies. The work contains 14 poems in verse on marriage, all in a rather satirical and comic vein (the union of Adam and Eve, polygamy...), 9 by Caspar Barleus, 4 by Boyus and one by Cats, who undertook to produce the edition. This is followed by a section consisting of philosophical dialogues on the virtues of marriage and weddings. As a historical note, Elizabeth's union was a failure, and the Queen of Bohemia chose to end her days as an abbess in a Protestant monastery. The whole forms a quite remarkable curiosity.
€350