ALCIATUS, Andreas (1492-1550). Emblemata cum commentariis amplissimis. Padova: Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1621. 4° (216 x 152mm). Additional engraved title, title within woodcut border and with woodcut vignette, 212 woodcuts of emblems, large woodcut on final leaf. (Occasional light foxing.) Modern mottled calf by L. Claesssens, gilt spine, red edges. Provenance: Thomas Westwood (booklabel) – L. Claessens (bookseller's ticket) – S.A. Thompson Yates (booklabel).
A FINE COPY of 'the most extensive commentated of Alciati's edition' (Landwehr). Edited by Joannes Thuilius, professor in Freiburg im Breigsau, who also combined the commentaries by Mignault, Sanchez and Pignorius. 211 of the woodcut emblems are from the 1618 edition, now within woodcut borders, emblem 80 is new and known as the 'offensive' emblem. Landwehr Romanic, 99.
ALCIATUS, Andreas (1492-1550). Emblemata cum commentariis amplissimis. Padova: Pietro Paolo Tozzi, 1621. 4° (216 x 152mm). Additional engraved title, title within woodcut border and with woodcut vignette, 212 woodcuts of emblems, large woodcut on final leaf. (Occasional light foxing.) Modern mottled calf by L. Claesssens, gilt spine, red edges. Provenance: Thomas Westwood (booklabel) – L. Claessens (bookseller's ticket) – S.A. Thompson Yates (booklabel).
A FINE COPY of 'the most extensive commentated of Alciati's edition' (Landwehr). Edited by Joannes Thuilius, professor in Freiburg im Breigsau, who also combined the commentaries by Mignault, Sanchez and Pignorius. 211 of the woodcut emblems are from the 1618 edition, now within woodcut borders, emblem 80 is new and known as the 'offensive' emblem. Landwehr Romanic, 99.
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