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STRADANUS, Joannes. Venationes ferarum, auium, piscium. Pugnare bestiariorum: & mutuae bestiarum. [Antwerp:] Nicolaes Visscher, [restruck in England, not before 1817].
Oblong 2o (255 x 360 mm). Engraved title with border of animal subjects, and 102 numbered engraved plates by Ioan. Collaert, Adrian Collaert, Carol de Mallery, Cornelis Galle and Theodorus Galle after Stradanus, ALL HAND-COLORED IN GOUACHE BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, each plate with a legend of between two and four lines in Latin verse. The plates all printed on Whatman paper dated 1817. (Corners of title and first 15 plates chipped.) Contemporary green vellum (rebacked, front flyleaf torn). Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1970.
A FINE HAND-COLORED COPY OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE WORK ON THE CHASE. The first recorded issue was dated 1578 and published in Antwerp by Philip Galle with 104 plates. Thiébaud describes a late 18th-century reissue of the 1580 edition by Nicolaes Visscher, only distinguishable from it by the way the plates are printed on buff paper and mounted, and by the absence of captions in French on plates 2-6. The present issue is an English reimpression on Whatman paper, the captions all in Latin. Although born in Bruges, Jan van der Straat or Stradanus, as he became known, worked principally in Italy as a designer of cartoons for tapestries. From 1553-1571 he was employed by Cosimo de Medici, who commissioned him to make a series of lavish representations of hunting, fowling and fishing for the adornment of twenty rooms in the Palace of Peggio-a-Cajano. These are the designs so magnificently commemorated in the Venationes, blending well-tried renaissance hunting methods with fabulous subject matter drawn from Persia, India and the East, and here finely hand-colored. See Schwerdt II, p. 226; Thiébaud 858.
[Bound with:] STRADANUS. Vermis sericus. [Antwerp: Nicolas Visscher, restruck in England on Whatman, not before 1817]. Oblong 2o. 6 hand-colored engraved plates, including title.
This series of plates on the silkworm is often found bound with the Venationes.
Oblong 2o (255 x 360 mm). Engraved title with border of animal subjects, and 102 numbered engraved plates by Ioan. Collaert, Adrian Collaert, Carol de Mallery, Cornelis Galle and Theodorus Galle after Stradanus, ALL HAND-COLORED IN GOUACHE BY A CONTEMPORARY HAND, each plate with a legend of between two and four lines in Latin verse. The plates all printed on Whatman paper dated 1817. (Corners of title and first 15 plates chipped.) Contemporary green vellum (rebacked, front flyleaf torn). Provenance: acquired from Goodspeed's Book Shop, 1970.
A FINE HAND-COLORED COPY OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE WORK ON THE CHASE. The first recorded issue was dated 1578 and published in Antwerp by Philip Galle with 104 plates. Thiébaud describes a late 18th-century reissue of the 1580 edition by Nicolaes Visscher, only distinguishable from it by the way the plates are printed on buff paper and mounted, and by the absence of captions in French on plates 2-6. The present issue is an English reimpression on Whatman paper, the captions all in Latin. Although born in Bruges, Jan van der Straat or Stradanus, as he became known, worked principally in Italy as a designer of cartoons for tapestries. From 1553-1571 he was employed by Cosimo de Medici, who commissioned him to make a series of lavish representations of hunting, fowling and fishing for the adornment of twenty rooms in the Palace of Peggio-a-Cajano. These are the designs so magnificently commemorated in the Venationes, blending well-tried renaissance hunting methods with fabulous subject matter drawn from Persia, India and the East, and here finely hand-colored. See Schwerdt II, p. 226; Thiébaud 858.
[Bound with:] STRADANUS. Vermis sericus. [Antwerp: Nicolas Visscher, restruck in England on Whatman, not before 1817]. Oblong 2o. 6 hand-colored engraved plates, including title.
This series of plates on the silkworm is often found bound with the Venationes.