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HOOGSTRATEN, Frans von. Het voorhof der Ziele. Rotterdam: Fransois van Hoogstraeten, 1668.
4° (177 x 145 mm.) Additional engraved title and 60 engraved emblems by and after Romeyn de Hooghe. (Without blank *2.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, red speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: A. H. Bright (booklabel).
FIRST EDITION of the first book illustrated by de Hooghe. Each emblem with a Dutch caption and Latin or Italian quotation. Among the wide variety of human types represented are soldiers, fishermen, a goldsmith, a surgeon operating on cancer, a mailman, a painter and torturers; Biblical scenes and a view of Rotterdam are also included. Landwehr Low Countries, 325; Praz, p. 372. A FINE COPY.
4° (177 x 145 mm.) Additional engraved title and 60 engraved emblems by and after Romeyn de Hooghe. (Without blank *2.) Contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine, red speckled edges (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: A. H. Bright (booklabel).
FIRST EDITION of the first book illustrated by de Hooghe. Each emblem with a Dutch caption and Latin or Italian quotation. Among the wide variety of human types represented are soldiers, fishermen, a goldsmith, a surgeon operating on cancer, a mailman, a painter and torturers; Biblical scenes and a view of Rotterdam are also included. Landwehr Low Countries, 325; Praz, p. 372. A FINE COPY.
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