Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 62

Price Realized: $ 2,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
(EMBLEM BOOK.) Amoris divini et humani antipathia . . . Editio II aucta et recognita. Latin, French, Spanish, and Flemish text. 84 engraved plates, including title, all hand-colored at a later date(?); uncolored full-page coat of arms. [20], 167, [6] pages, but with A1 (pages 1-2) bound after the title. Small 8vo, modern vellum with title and date in ink on spine; margins trimmed affecting some sidenotes, some light foxing and dampstaining variously affecting plates, blank outer margin of title restored, A1 reinforced along fore edge, marginal repairs on a few plates without image loss; uncut. Antwerp: (Gerard Wolsschat for) Michael Snyders, 1629

Additional Details

Second edition of a work first published under a slightly different title in 1626, and first edition to include the Spanish text. Funck, pages 267-68; Peeters-Fontainas 47; Praz, page 255.