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SAMBUCUS, JOANNES. Emblemata, cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis. Title within woodcut numismatic border; portrait of Sambucus on page 8; dedicatory
SAMBUCUS, JOANNES. Emblemata, cum aliquot nummis antiqui operis. Title within woodcut numismatic border; portrait of Sambucus on page 8; dedicatory illustration on page [9]; 167 woodcut emblems, each within different historiated or ornamental border, and 46 numismatic woodcuts, after Pieter Huys and Lucas d'Heere. 240 pages. 8vo, modern sprinkled calf gilt in 17th-century style, spine lightly faded; light dampstaining in inner corners in second half of volume, genitalia inked out on several emblems, with small hole from oxidation affecting illustrations on pages 17-18, H6 and I7 supplied from another copy. Early Antwerp Jesuit ownership inscription on title. Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1564
- Notes: first edition of the first emblem book printed by Plantin, including a small world map on page 113, and the earliest book illustration of a game of tennis on page 133. Praz, page 486; Fairfax Murray/German 391; overlooked by Shirley.
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