DE BRY, Johann Theodor (1561-1623) and Johann ISRAEL de. Emblemata saecularia, mira et iucunda varietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia . Frankfurt: [for the authors], 1596.
DE BRY, Johann Theodor (1561-1623) and Johann ISRAEL de. Emblemata saecularia, mira et iucunda varietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia . Frankfurt: [for the authors], 1596. 4° (185 x 141 mm). Engraved title within engraved allegorical border incorporating 10 blank medallions and one medallion with a device, 51 engraved escutcheons printed in alternation to 50 numbered engraved plates by Theodor de Bry about 16 after Pieter Brueghel the Elder, the remainder after Hieronymus Bosch Hans Bol Martin de Vos, and others. (Small repair to top right margin of title, tiny repaired wormhole in margin of 30th escutcheon.) 18th-century Russia with gilt crest of George Spencer Churchill , 5th Duke of Marlborough (joints cracked, extremities rubbed.) Provenance : George Spencer Churchill, Marquess of Blandford and later 5th Duke of Marlborough (1766-1840; binding) -- White Knights Library sale, 14 June 1819, lot 1339, £19-8-6 to Payne -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. SPENCER-CHURCHILL - YATES THOMPSON COPY. De Brys' second emblem book, in which the emblems are used as ornaments for Alba amicorum . The de Bry emblem books are the most famous representatives of this form of emblematic printed Stamm-und Wappenbücher , fashionable in Germany in the second half of the 16th century (see next lot). The Emblemata saecularia , finely illustrated with engravings by Theodor de Bry's sons, was reprinted with additional engravings in 1611. The contents of recorded copies of the present edition seems to vary: some, like the Vershbow copy, had an equal number of escutcheons and emblem plates, while others are described as containing 51 or 52 blank escutcheons: these totals may, however, include the Minerva plate, presumably intended for the owner's arms. Adams B-2980 (56 plates only); Brunet I:1309; Hollstein IV, 240-287 (conflating the editions of the Emblemata saecularia and the Emblemata nobilitate ); Landwehr German , 154; Praz p. 290 (70 copperplates and 72 escutcheons).
DE BRY, Johann Theodor (1561-1623) and Johann ISRAEL de. Emblemata saecularia, mira et iucunda varietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia . Frankfurt: [for the authors], 1596.
DE BRY, Johann Theodor (1561-1623) and Johann ISRAEL de. Emblemata saecularia, mira et iucunda varietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia . Frankfurt: [for the authors], 1596. 4° (185 x 141 mm). Engraved title within engraved allegorical border incorporating 10 blank medallions and one medallion with a device, 51 engraved escutcheons printed in alternation to 50 numbered engraved plates by Theodor de Bry about 16 after Pieter Brueghel the Elder, the remainder after Hieronymus Bosch Hans Bol Martin de Vos, and others. (Small repair to top right margin of title, tiny repaired wormhole in margin of 30th escutcheon.) 18th-century Russia with gilt crest of George Spencer Churchill , 5th Duke of Marlborough (joints cracked, extremities rubbed.) Provenance : George Spencer Churchill, Marquess of Blandford and later 5th Duke of Marlborough (1766-1840; binding) -- White Knights Library sale, 14 June 1819, lot 1339, £19-8-6 to Payne -- S.A. Thompson Yates (bookplate). FIRST EDITION. SPENCER-CHURCHILL - YATES THOMPSON COPY. De Brys' second emblem book, in which the emblems are used as ornaments for Alba amicorum . The de Bry emblem books are the most famous representatives of this form of emblematic printed Stamm-und Wappenbücher , fashionable in Germany in the second half of the 16th century (see next lot). The Emblemata saecularia , finely illustrated with engravings by Theodor de Bry's sons, was reprinted with additional engravings in 1611. The contents of recorded copies of the present edition seems to vary: some, like the Vershbow copy, had an equal number of escutcheons and emblem plates, while others are described as containing 51 or 52 blank escutcheons: these totals may, however, include the Minerva plate, presumably intended for the owner's arms. Adams B-2980 (56 plates only); Brunet I:1309; Hollstein IV, 240-287 (conflating the editions of the Emblemata saecularia and the Emblemata nobilitate ); Landwehr German , 154; Praz p. 290 (70 copperplates and 72 escutcheons).
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