![ROLLENHAGEN, Gabriel (1583-1619). Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, quae Itali vulgo impresas vocant. Cologne and Utrecht: Crispin de Passe for Jan Jansson, [1611-] 1613.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0153_001(rollenhagen_gabriel_nucleus_emblematum_selectissimorum_quae_itali_vulg022347).jpg?w=1)
![ROLLENHAGEN, Gabriel (1583-1619). Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, quae Itali vulgo impresas vocant. Cologne and Utrecht: Crispin de Passe for Jan Jansson, [1611-] 1613.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2014/CKS/2014_CKS_01584_0153_000(rollenhagen_gabriel_nucleus_emblematum_selectissimorum_quae_itali_vulg042220).jpg?w=1)
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ROLLENHAGEN, Gabriel (1583-1619). Nucleus emblematum selectissimorum, quae Itali vulgo impresas vocant. Cologne and Utrecht: Crispin de Passe for Jan Jansson, [1611-] 1613.
2 parts, 4° (185 x 134mm). Engraved title and part title, engraved portrait of the artist for each part, 100 circular copperplates with engraved text by Crispin de Passe. (First engraved portrait with some creases, some plates lightly browned.) Red morocco gilt by Lloyd and Wallis, gilt panelled spine, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thomspon Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. It is presumed that copies bound with the French text in part 2 only and without the date 1611 on the engraved title for part one are of an earlier issue. This collection of emblems consists 'of engravings of high inventive and decorative charm. Religious and moral truths are expressed in complicated imagery. Rollenhagen is the poetical inventor whose ideas De Passe delineates in delicate circular engravings' (Benesch Rubens to Daumier, p. 28). Brunet IV, 1359; Landwehr German, 510 & Low Countries, 690; Praz p. 141 and 476; Vinet 114.
2 parts, 4° (185 x 134mm). Engraved title and part title, engraved portrait of the artist for each part, 100 circular copperplates with engraved text by Crispin de Passe. (First engraved portrait with some creases, some plates lightly browned.) Red morocco gilt by Lloyd and Wallis, gilt panelled spine, gilt turn-ins and edges. Provenance: [H. Yates Thompson] -- S.A. Thomspon Yates (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION. It is presumed that copies bound with the French text in part 2 only and without the date 1611 on the engraved title for part one are of an earlier issue. This collection of emblems consists 'of engravings of high inventive and decorative charm. Religious and moral truths are expressed in complicated imagery. Rollenhagen is the poetical inventor whose ideas De Passe delineates in delicate circular engravings' (Benesch Rubens to Daumier, p. 28). Brunet IV, 1359; Landwehr German, 510 & Low Countries, 690; Praz p. 141 and 476; Vinet 114.
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