Apr 15, 2004 - Sale 2002

Sale 2002 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 2,185
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
CAMERARIUS, JOACHIM. Symboloru[m] & emblematum . . . centuria una[-quarta] collecta. 4 engraved titles and 400 text emblems by Hans Sibmacher depicting plants, animals, birds, and insects in landscape settings. [2], 102; 103, [1]; [2], 104; [2], 101, [1] leaves. 4 parts in one volume. 4to, contemporary calf, heavily worn and rebacked; occasional toning and marginal soiling, worming in blank outer margins not affecting text or illustrations, mainly confined to part 3, minor stain on several plates in part 3. Frankfurt: Johannes Ammonius, 1654

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Quartet of natural history emblem books first published individually from 1590 to 1604, and collectively in 1605. Hunt 181; Nissen ZBI 793; Praz, page 295.