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BARLAEUS, Caspar (1584-1648). Marie de Medicis entrant dans Amsterdam ... traduicte du Latin. Amsterdam: Joan and Cornelius Blaeu, 1638.
2o (369 x 246 mm). Title with engraved arms of Amsterdam. Engraved portrait of Marie de Medici, 16 folding etched plates by S. Savry after L.C. Moyaert, S. de Vlieger, and Martsen de Jonge. With final blank. Contemporary calf gilt, each cover with central gilt wreath, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, gilt-decorated in the remaining (some light wear, a few small repairs). Provenance: acquired from Pierre Berès, 1981.
FIRST EDITION IN LATIN, plates in the second state, after the addition of numbers. The Latin and French editions were published in the same year, and a Dutch edition followed in 1639. The large plates depict the entry of Marie de Medici into Amsterdam with admiring crowds, and ceremonial and allegorical scenes. "When the Queen Dowager, Maria de' Medici, visited Amsterdam in 1637, she was fêted extravagantly with triumphal arches and allegorical performances. Casparus Barlaeus, the poet and professor of philosophy and rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, was entrusted with the task of transmitting this important event in literary form to posterity. Hooft, his famous contemporary, praised him as the 'Prince of Poets' who 'poured brave verses gently out of his sleeve'" (Otto Benesch, Artistic and Intellectual Trends from Rubens to Daumier, p.36). Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 109; Müller 1793.
2o (369 x 246 mm). Title with engraved arms of Amsterdam. Engraved portrait of Marie de Medici, 16 folding etched plates by S. Savry after L.C. Moyaert, S. de Vlieger, and Martsen de Jonge. With final blank. Contemporary calf gilt, each cover with central gilt wreath, spine in six compartments with five raised bands, red morocco lettering-piece in one, gilt-decorated in the remaining (some light wear, a few small repairs). Provenance: acquired from Pierre Berès, 1981.
FIRST EDITION IN LATIN, plates in the second state, after the addition of numbers. The Latin and French editions were published in the same year, and a Dutch edition followed in 1639. The large plates depict the entry of Marie de Medici into Amsterdam with admiring crowds, and ceremonial and allegorical scenes. "When the Queen Dowager, Maria de' Medici, visited Amsterdam in 1637, she was fêted extravagantly with triumphal arches and allegorical performances. Casparus Barlaeus, the poet and professor of philosophy and rhetoric at the University of Amsterdam, was entrusted with the task of transmitting this important event in literary form to posterity. Hooft, his famous contemporary, praised him as the 'Prince of Poets' who 'poured brave verses gently out of his sleeve'" (Otto Benesch, Artistic and Intellectual Trends from Rubens to Daumier, p.36). Landwehr, Splendid Ceremonies 109; Müller 1793.