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[J. SAMBUCUS]
Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis
Antwerp: Christophor Plantin, 8 September 1564. 8vo., title with woodcut surround, woodcut emblems with scrollwork borders, woodcuts of Roman coins on last four leaves (lacks M4-5, title cut down and mounted, occasional soiling and staining, H7 with small repair and tear at margin), 18th-century speckled calf, spine gilt with morocco label, red speckled edges (crack in upper joints).
FIRST EDITION. The emblem on p. 133, headed "Temporis iactura. Ad pilulam', shows a game of tennis. Whitman believed this to be the earliest image of tennis in a printed book, though in fact two tennis emblems appeared in Guillaume de la Perrières's Le Theatre des bons engins of 1539 (see Christie's Railing Sale, 17 November 2005, lot 36). Adams S218; Whitman p. 176.
Emblemata cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis
Antwerp: Christophor Plantin, 8 September 1564. 8vo., title with woodcut surround, woodcut emblems with scrollwork borders, woodcuts of Roman coins on last four leaves (lacks M4-5, title cut down and mounted, occasional soiling and staining, H7 with small repair and tear at margin), 18th-century speckled calf, spine gilt with morocco label, red speckled edges (crack in upper joints).
FIRST EDITION. The emblem on p. 133, headed "Temporis iactura. Ad pilulam', shows a game of tennis. Whitman believed this to be the earliest image of tennis in a printed book, though in fact two tennis emblems appeared in Guillaume de la Perrières's Le Theatre des bons engins of 1539 (see Christie's Railing Sale, 17 November 2005, lot 36). Adams S218; Whitman p. 176.
Exhibited
Jeu des rois, roi des jeux, Le jeu de paume en France, Musée national du Château de Fontainebleau, 2 October 2001 - 7 January 2002, no. 34.
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