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BOXHORN, Marcus Zuerius (d.1653). Emblemata politica & orationes. Amsterdam: J. Jansson, 1651.
16° (120 x 68mm). Title in red and black with small woodcut device, 17 engraved emblems. (Tears to inner margin of S1, occasional light soiling.) Later vellum, leather label on spine (lightly soiled). Provenance: A.H. Bright (booklabel). Second edition. Landwehr Low Countries, 76.
Together with seven other emblem works comprising: Saavedra Faxard’s Idea principis Christiano-politici (Amstedam, 1651); Thomas Bartholinus’ De unicornu observationes novae (Amsterdam, 1678); Adriaan Spinniker’s Leerzaame zinnebeelden (Haarlem, 1714); Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti’s Spiegel sonder Bedrogh ofte kennisse syns selfs (Antwerp, 1733); Pauwels’ Pessimorum pessimum, et optimorum optimum, sive Linguae incompositae (Antwerp, 1774); Matthaeus Merian’s La danse des morts ... depeinte dans la ville de Basle (Basel, 1789); and a work containing 7 tipped in engravings and titled 'Triumphs over the Vices by Wierx' on spine.
16° (120 x 68mm). Title in red and black with small woodcut device, 17 engraved emblems. (Tears to inner margin of S1, occasional light soiling.) Later vellum, leather label on spine (lightly soiled). Provenance: A.H. Bright (booklabel). Second edition. Landwehr Low Countries, 76.
Together with seven other emblem works comprising: Saavedra Faxard’s Idea principis Christiano-politici (Amstedam, 1651); Thomas Bartholinus’ De unicornu observationes novae (Amsterdam, 1678); Adriaan Spinniker’s Leerzaame zinnebeelden (Haarlem, 1714); Giovanni Pietro Pinamonti’s Spiegel sonder Bedrogh ofte kennisse syns selfs (Antwerp, 1733); Pauwels’ Pessimorum pessimum, et optimorum optimum, sive Linguae incompositae (Antwerp, 1774); Matthaeus Merian’s La danse des morts ... depeinte dans la ville de Basle (Basel, 1789); and a work containing 7 tipped in engravings and titled 'Triumphs over the Vices by Wierx' on spine.
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