BRY, Johann Theodor de and Johann ISRAEL de. Emblemata saecularia, mira et iucunda varietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia... Weltliche lustige neuwe Kunststück der jetzigen Welt lauff fürbildende, mit artlichen... Reimen geziert, fasst dienstlich zu einem zierlichen Stamm und Wapenbüchlein. Frankfurt: [for the authors], 1596.
BRY, Johann Theodor de and Johann ISRAEL de. Emblemata saecularia, mira et iucunda varietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia... Weltliche lustige neuwe Kunststück der jetzigen Welt lauff fürbildende, mit artlichen... Reimen geziert, fasst dienstlich zu einem zierlichen Stamm und Wapenbüchlein. Frankfurt: [for the authors], 1596. 4 o (192 x 147 mm). Letterpress title within engraved allegorical border incorporating 10 blank medallions and one medallion with a device, 19 text leaves with verse descriptions of the emblems in Latin, German, French and Dutch, 98 (of 100?) engraved plates by Johann Theodor de Bry about 16 after Pieter Brueghel the Elder, the remainder after Hieronymus Bosch Hans Bol Martin de Vos, and others, consisting of an introductory plate showing Minerva seated with blank shield, 50 numbered plates of emblems and 48 (of 50?) unnumbered plates of blank escutcheons (including repeats), all with decorative mounts, a few accompanied by equestrian figures, the emblem and escutcheon plates bound in to face each other. (Early ink notations on two plates, one plate with marginal tear, repaired, some light marginal browning and staining.) 19th-century English calf (restored by J. Macdonald). Provenance : Early marginalia, William Beckford (1760-1844) English novelist (pencil note and lot description); H. Destailleur (bookplate); Michel De Bry (bookplate, his sale Paris, November 1966, lot 39); acquired from Librairie Valette, 1973. FIRST EDITION of the 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 lot 426). 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 present copy, are described as having 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. Fact and Fantasy 47.
BRY, Johann Theodor de and Johann ISRAEL de. Emblemata saecularia, mira et iucunda varietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia... Weltliche lustige neuwe Kunststück der jetzigen Welt lauff fürbildende, mit artlichen... Reimen geziert, fasst dienstlich zu einem zierlichen Stamm und Wapenbüchlein. Frankfurt: [for the authors], 1596.
BRY, Johann Theodor de and Johann ISRAEL de. Emblemata saecularia, mira et iucunda varietate saeculi huius mores ita exprimentia... Weltliche lustige neuwe Kunststück der jetzigen Welt lauff fürbildende, mit artlichen... Reimen geziert, fasst dienstlich zu einem zierlichen Stamm und Wapenbüchlein. Frankfurt: [for the authors], 1596. 4 o (192 x 147 mm). Letterpress title within engraved allegorical border incorporating 10 blank medallions and one medallion with a device, 19 text leaves with verse descriptions of the emblems in Latin, German, French and Dutch, 98 (of 100?) engraved plates by Johann Theodor de Bry about 16 after Pieter Brueghel the Elder, the remainder after Hieronymus Bosch Hans Bol Martin de Vos, and others, consisting of an introductory plate showing Minerva seated with blank shield, 50 numbered plates of emblems and 48 (of 50?) unnumbered plates of blank escutcheons (including repeats), all with decorative mounts, a few accompanied by equestrian figures, the emblem and escutcheon plates bound in to face each other. (Early ink notations on two plates, one plate with marginal tear, repaired, some light marginal browning and staining.) 19th-century English calf (restored by J. Macdonald). Provenance : Early marginalia, William Beckford (1760-1844) English novelist (pencil note and lot description); H. Destailleur (bookplate); Michel De Bry (bookplate, his sale Paris, November 1966, lot 39); acquired from Librairie Valette, 1973. FIRST EDITION of the 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 lot 426). 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 present copy, are described as having 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. Fact and Fantasy 47.
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