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Les emblemes d'amour divin et humain ensemble. Expliquez par des vers françois. Par un Père Capucin. Paris: Pierre Mariette, [c. 1640].
8° (163 x 114mm). Engraved title with border of musical instruments, and 118 full-page emblematic engravings after Michael Snyders and Gillis van Schoor, 35 signed by I. Messager, publisher of the 1631 edition, each with engraved Latin motto and French couplet. Manuscript heading to each illustration in French, and three manuscript quatrains on each facing page, all within red rules. Late 18th-century polished calf, triple fillets on sides, flat gilt spine with green morocco label, gilt turn-ins and edges (corners a little bumped). Provenance: as the better copy, this is probably the one in the H. Yates Thompson catalogue.
A work first published as Amoris divini et humani effectus in Antwerp in 1626. The plates after Michael Snyder in turn derive from Vaenius, Hugo, Heinsius, and Cats's Silenus Alcibiadis. Their subjects are two children, earthly and divine love, in their play and occupations. The Latin scripture text called for by Landwehr in this edition is here replaced by French quatrains in manuscript.
With another copy of the same work, carrying different manuscript headings, but containing the same quatrains, written below rather than opposite each plate. The bibliographical notes by Henry Green on front pastedown mention the part manuscript Corser copy. Landwehr Romanic 272; Praz p. 255 (apparently confusing the Corser copy with one of Bright's copies).
8° (163 x 114mm). Engraved title with border of musical instruments, and 118 full-page emblematic engravings after Michael Snyders and Gillis van Schoor, 35 signed by I. Messager, publisher of the 1631 edition, each with engraved Latin motto and French couplet. Manuscript heading to each illustration in French, and three manuscript quatrains on each facing page, all within red rules. Late 18th-century polished calf, triple fillets on sides, flat gilt spine with green morocco label, gilt turn-ins and edges (corners a little bumped). Provenance: as the better copy, this is probably the one in the H. Yates Thompson catalogue.
A work first published as Amoris divini et humani effectus in Antwerp in 1626. The plates after Michael Snyder in turn derive from Vaenius, Hugo, Heinsius, and Cats's Silenus Alcibiadis. Their subjects are two children, earthly and divine love, in their play and occupations. The Latin scripture text called for by Landwehr in this edition is here replaced by French quatrains in manuscript.
With another copy of the same work, carrying different manuscript headings, but containing the same quatrains, written below rather than opposite each plate. The bibliographical notes by Henry Green on front pastedown mention the part manuscript Corser copy. Landwehr Romanic 272; Praz p. 255 (apparently confusing the Corser copy with one of Bright's copies).
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