![[HAWKINS, Henry (1571?-1646)]. Partheneia sacra; or the mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious devises and emblemes for the entertainment of devout soules ... by H.A. [Rouen]: John Cousturier, 1633.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/NYR/2013_NYR_02800_0539_000(hawkins_henry_partheneia_sacra_or_the_mysterious_and_delicious_garden075813).jpg?w=1)
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[HAWKINS, Henry (1571?-1646)]. Partheneia sacra; or the mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes symbolically set forth and enriched with pious devises and emblemes for the entertainment of devout soules ... by H.A. [Rouen]: John Cousturier, 1633.
8o (178 x 120 mm). Engraved additional title by P. van Langeren, full-page engraving of the garden and 48 engraved devices and emblems. (Small hole at gutter margin of title affecting typographical border on verso.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: acquired from Ximenes, 1976.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION (prior to 1950) of this rare emblem book by an English Jesuit which examines the symbolism of specific flowers, plants, birds, insects and natural phenomena. Landwehr, Romanic 371; Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p.1; STC 12958.
8o (178 x 120 mm). Engraved additional title by P. van Langeren, full-page engraving of the garden and 48 engraved devices and emblems. (Small hole at gutter margin of title affecting typographical border on verso.) Contemporary limp vellum. Provenance: acquired from Ximenes, 1976.
FIRST AND ONLY EDITION (prior to 1950) of this rare emblem book by an English Jesuit which examines the symbolism of specific flowers, plants, birds, insects and natural phenomena. Landwehr, Romanic 371; Praz, Seventeenth-Century Imagery, p.1; STC 12958.