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STRADANUS, Joannes (1523-1605). Equile, seu speculum equorum, in quo omnis generis generosissimorum equorum ex variis orbis partibus insignis delectus. Antwerp: Johannes Galle, ca 1580.
Oblong 4o (355 x 488 mm). Engraved title and 40 engraved plates by Adriaen Collaert, Hieronymus Wierix, and Hendrik Goltzius and others, numbered 2-41. (Title with marginal repaired tear and small abrasion affecting one line of text, plate 23 with large marginal repaired tear.) 18th-century green parchment. Provenance: G.A. Brentano (bookplate); acquired from Davis and Orioli, 1964.
FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the addition of plate numbers, and with the rare plate 41. Stradanus's series depicts the horses of Don Juan of Austria, Governor-General of the Netherlands from 1576 to 1578. His designs were executed between 1578 to 1580 by several prominent engravers including Adriaen Collaert, Hieronymus Wierix, and Hendrik Goltzius. Don Juan of Austria was the illegitimate son of Charles V and a half-brother to Philip II (1555-1598), King of Spain and the Netherlands. He lead Spanish troops to their decisive victory against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and became Governor-General of the Netherlands in 1576. He died of the plague in 1578. It was in the Netherlands that Stadanus drew Don Juan's collection of horses from the different regions of Europe. Messenier, p. 537.
Oblong 4o (355 x 488 mm). Engraved title and 40 engraved plates by Adriaen Collaert, Hieronymus Wierix, and Hendrik Goltzius and others, numbered 2-41. (Title with marginal repaired tear and small abrasion affecting one line of text, plate 23 with large marginal repaired tear.) 18th-century green parchment. Provenance: G.A. Brentano (bookplate); acquired from Davis and Orioli, 1964.
FIRST EDITION, second issue, with the addition of plate numbers, and with the rare plate 41. Stradanus's series depicts the horses of Don Juan of Austria, Governor-General of the Netherlands from 1576 to 1578. His designs were executed between 1578 to 1580 by several prominent engravers including Adriaen Collaert, Hieronymus Wierix, and Hendrik Goltzius. Don Juan of Austria was the illegitimate son of Charles V and a half-brother to Philip II (1555-1598), King of Spain and the Netherlands. He lead Spanish troops to their decisive victory against the Ottoman Empire at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) and became Governor-General of the Netherlands in 1576. He died of the plague in 1578. It was in the Netherlands that Stadanus drew Don Juan's collection of horses from the different regions of Europe. Messenier, p. 537.