Junius (Adrianus): Emblemata, Aenigmatum Libellus, Antwerp, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1565, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, 58 woodcut emblems after G. Ballain and P. Huys by Gerard Janssen van Kampen and others, woodcut borders throughout, 19th-century morocco (spine rubbed). [Adams J444; Funck 344; Praz 384]

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Junius (Adrianus): Emblemata, Aenigmatum Libellus, Antwerp, ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1565, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, 58 woodcut emblems after G. Ballain and P. Huys by Gerard Janssen van Kampen and others, woodcut borders throughout, 19th-century morocco (spine rubbed). [Adams J444; Funck 344; Praz 384]

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The famous emblem book of the Dutch physician Adriaan de Jonghe.

Sale: 'Bought #1. 5. 0 at Mr. Corser's sale, March 1869' (manuscript note on free endpaper).

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