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BOISSARD, Jean Jacques (1528-1602). Emblematum liber. Frankfurt: Johann Theodor de Bry, 1593.
4° (190 x 147mm). Engraved title and 52 interleaved engraved plates by Johann Theodor de Bry of which 51 numbered emblems. (Lacking engraved portrait with laudatory poem on the recto, small scattered stains and occasional soiling.) 18th-century vellum blind-stamped in gilt on front cover within dark decorated border, manuscript title on spine (lacking ties, soiled.) Provenance: erased ownership inscription on margin of title and text occasionally underlined -- F.A. Maige (bookplate) -- [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
YATES THOMPSON COPY OF THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION with fine impression of the engraved plates. The first edition was published at Metz in 1584. Landwehr German, 133; Vinet 851.
4° (190 x 147mm). Engraved title and 52 interleaved engraved plates by Johann Theodor de Bry of which 51 numbered emblems. (Lacking engraved portrait with laudatory poem on the recto, small scattered stains and occasional soiling.) 18th-century vellum blind-stamped in gilt on front cover within dark decorated border, manuscript title on spine (lacking ties, soiled.) Provenance: erased ownership inscription on margin of title and text occasionally underlined -- F.A. Maige (bookplate) -- [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate).
YATES THOMPSON COPY OF THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION with fine impression of the engraved plates. The first edition was published at Metz in 1584. Landwehr German, 133; Vinet 851.
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