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WEERDT, JODOCUS DE. Parnassi bicipitis de pace vaticinia, chronographicis, retrogradis, acrostichis, & anagrammatis explicata. Shaped text within woodcut figures on pages 96-97 and 101-105. 128, [2] (of [4]) pages, including penultimate leaf with approbation and colophon; lacks last leaf with printer's device. 4to, 222x170 mm, contemporary vellum boards, soiled; occasional toning. From the Sackner Collection of Visual and Concrete Poetry. Antwerp: Officina Plantiniana (Balthasaris Moreti), 1626
first edition of a 2-part collection of panegyrics and predictions on contemporary figures and events in the form of elaborate chronograms, acrostics, and other forms of word play. The first part reprints the author's 1609 Concordiae Belgicae panegyricus parnassicus, on the truce concluded that year between the Spanish-ruled Catholic Southern Netherlands and the Protestant Dutch Republic.
