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First edition of an important German Emblem book

IS(S)ELBURG, Peter & Georg REM.
Emblemata Politica. In aula magna Curiae Noribergensis depicta quae sacra virtutum suggerunt monita prudenter administrandi fortiterque defendendi Rempublicam.

Title within richly designed allegorical etched  borders including a view of Nürnberg at foot, signed by Petrus Iselburg, full-page  etched dedication with the Nürnberg coat-of-arms and the eight coat-of-arms of the eight Nürnberg Senators to whom the book is dedicated, dated 1 January 1617, and 32 full-page beautifully designed etched oval emblems, all within ornamental borders of various design by Peter Isselberg, with engraved captions above and four-line Latin verses below, versos blank.

Title within richly designed allegorical etched  borders including a view of Nürnberg at foot, signed by Petrus Iselburg, full-page  etched dedication with the Nürnberg coat-of-arms and the eight coat-of-arms of the eight Nürnberg Senators to whom the book is dedicated, dated 1 January 1617, and 32 full-page beautifully designed etched oval emblems, all within ornamental borders of various design by Peter Isselberg, with engraved captions above and four-line Latin verses below, versos blank.

Title within richly designed allegorical etched  borders including a view of Nürnberg at foot, signed by Petrus Iselburg, full-page  etched dedication with the Nürnberg coat-of-arms and the eight coat-of-arms of the eight Nürnberg Senators to whom the book is dedicated, dated 1 January 1617, and 32 full-page beautifully designed etched oval emblems, all within ornamental borders of various design by Peter Isselberg, with engraved captions above and four-line Latin verses below, versos blank.

Title within richly designed allegorical etched  borders including a view of Nürnberg at foot, signed by Petrus Iselburg, full-page  etched dedication with the Nürnberg coat-of-arms and the eight coat-of-arms of the eight Nürnberg Senators to whom the book is dedicated, dated 1 January 1617, and 32 full-page beautifully designed etched oval emblems, all within ornamental borders of various design by Peter Isselberg, with engraved captions above and four-line Latin verses below, versos blank.

Title within richly designed allegorical etched  borders including a view of Nürnberg at foot, signed by Petrus Iselburg, full-page  etched dedication with the Nürnberg coat-of-arms and the eight coat-of-arms of the eight Nürnberg Senators to whom the book is dedicated, dated 1 January 1617, and 32 full-page beautifully designed etched oval emblems, all within ornamental borders of various design by Peter Isselberg, with engraved captions above and four-line Latin verses below, versos blank.



(Nürnberg, Peter Isselburg, 1617). Small 4to. In a beautiful modern bibliophile binding: brown morocco with a large panels on both sides of green imitation reptile leather, encrusted with small gems in centre, chamois endpapers, with matching half morocco overlapping wrappers with title lettered in gold on spine, insides chamois, and matching half morocco slipcase (PEREZ-NORIEGA 1995). Title within richly designed allegorical etched  borders including a view of Nürnberg at foot, signed by Petrus Iselburg, full-page  etched dedication with the Nürnberg coat-of-arms and the eight coat-of-arms of the eight Nürnberg Senators to whom the book is dedicated, dated 1 January 1617, and 32 full-page beautifully designed etched oval emblems, all within ornamental borders of various design by Peter Isselberg, with engraved captions above and four-line Latin verses below, versos blank. (5) lvs. of text.

First edition, published directly from the artist's  workshop, of a rare political emblem book, with the designs of the emblems taken from the paintings painted for the great chamber of the city hall of Nürnberg. On title a view of Nürnberg, and a view of the Burg at Neuremberg on Emblem 17, depicted under a huge rainbow.
After the Engraved title, the leaf with the engraved coat-of-arms, and the dedication (one leaf with printed text with the artist's explanation of the origin of the emblems), there are four leaves with verses in German: 'Kurtze Erklärung nachfolgender Emblematum', containing explanations for each emblem, also including bibliographical references. This text, as well as the Latin verses below each emblem are by by George Rem(us; 1561-1625). Later issues of the  same year have the publisher's address, Nürnberg, J.Ph. Walch, and the date 1617 on title. A second edition was  published in 1640, also at Nürnberg. The second emblem in our copy is (rather clumsily) water coloured. The book has been  recently re-bound in a very beautiful bibliophile binding by Antonio Perez-Noriega, a master pupil of Jean de Gonet.

Beautiful copy.- (Washed).
Landwehr, German Emblem Books, 372; Praz p. 381; Berlin Kat. 4536; Müller, Nürnberger Kupferstich, 154; Hofer 104; Merlo 466, 309-340 (ed. publ. by Walch); introdustions to the two facsimilé-editions of the 1640 edition: (1) by Karl Heinz Schreyl (Nürnberg 1980) and (2) by Wolfgang Harms (Bern 1982); Doreen Fräsdorf, Ausserlitararische Anwendungen der Emblematik: Das Emblemprogramm des grossen Saales im Nürnberger Rathaus (on-line: <Hausarbeiten.de>)..

Related Subjects: 17th Century  Emblem  German  Germany  Nuremberg  Politics 

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