Johann de BRUNE, Adriaen van der VENNE
Emblemata of Zinne-werck: voorghestelt, in beelden, ghedichten, en breeder uijt-legginghen, tot uijt-druckinghe, en vergeteringhe vam verscheyden feylen onfer eeuwe.[Emblems or Zinne-werck: presented, in images, poems, and broader explanations, for the expression and remembrance of various errors of our age]
Ian Evertsen Cloppenburg|Amsterdam 1624|15.70 x 22 cm (In-4)|relié
Rare first edition of one of the most remarkable Dutch emblem books of the seventeenth century, illustrated with an engraved title bearing the device "SPE ET METU" and fifty-one emblems designed by Adriaen van de Venne and engraved by the artist himself together with Willem van de Passe, Johannes Gelle, Christoffel Le Blon the Elder, Albert Poel and Jan Gerritsz Swelinck.
Although the title page bears the imprint of the Amsterdam bookseller Jan Evertsz Cloppenburgh, the volume was printed in Middelburg by Hans van der Hellen, in Johan de Brune's native city. The first edition is thought to have comprised...
€3,500