[Rarebooks] FS: Early Jesuit Emblem Book. Antwerp: 1605

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(EMBLEM BOOKS) David, Jan. OCCASIO ARREPTA. NEGLECTA. Huius Commoda: 
Illius Incommoda. Antwerp: Ex Officiana Plantiniana, apud Joannem 
Moretum. 1605. First edition. 4to. 2 parts in 1, each with its own 
title page. (14),270;(271)-308,(26)pp. Indices. Copper engraved title 
page with an illustrated border. 2nd title page with a large copper 
engraved publisher's device. Woodcut publisher's device on verso of 
colophon. Illustrated with 12 copper engraved text plates, each with a 
verse caption in Latin. Title and plates engraved by Theodore Galle. 
19th c. 1/2 morocco, gilt, over textured cloth. Small ink stain in the 
blank fore-margin of first 3 leaves. Some very light 
browning.   $1,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
An early Jesuit emblem book by Jan David (1545-1613). Praz p. 313. 
CORPUS LIBRORUM EMBLEMATUM. The Jesuit Series. Volume I, p. 150. De 
Backer-Sommervogel II, 1847.

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