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Violence and murder illustrated by Crispyn de Passe
CIEGLERUS, Georgius.Konst-Spigel der weereldlikke vermaken. Vertoonende het wonderlik gewoel der kaizeren, koningen, vorsten en geleerde lieden, om te koomen tot de bezittinge van het hoogste goed. Zeer geleerdelik door-wrocht met de hoedanigheden der opperste heerschappyen, op-bouwingen en verwoestinge der voornaamste steden, hooven en slooten: uit-voeringen van manlikke daaden, listige vonden, liefde en gramschap. Altzaamen door-wrocht met aartige staat- plicht- en zeede-rijmen, op de verhandelde stoffe gevoegt. Nu in 't Nederduitsch overgeset.      Amst., Niclaes Franzen, 1652. Sm. 8vo. Contemp. vellum. With fine engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 17 full-page engraved plates by Crispyn de Passe. (12), 621, (20) pp. First Dutch edition of a rare popular book by Georg Ciegler (1551-1633) on the fortunes and misfortunes of the rulers and the great men of the world, a favoured subject with the public in the 17th century. Many of the fine engraved and imaginative plates by Crispyn de Passe illustrate violent death, accidents and murder. The book was translated from the German, and dedicated to the Amsterdam Burgomaster Frans Banning Kock. According to the colophon at the end, the book was printed at Amsterdam by Christoffel Cunradus. Good copy of a rare popular book.- (Binding sl. soiled, binding loose; frontispiece sl. frayed at edges; first index-leaf dam. with sl. loss of text).
Waller 409 (Meulman copy); Muller 394 (idem); De Vries 73 (idem); Cat. Meulman 3845; Scheepers II, 746; cf. Sale Cat. Coll. Buisman 762 (ed. of 1654); Sale Cat. J.L. Beijers, Jan. 1959 (Coll. Versnel), 277 (ed. of 1678, with plates by Jan Luyken).
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