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Including two songs translated by Vondel

HEYNS, Zacharias.
W.S. Heere van Bartas Wercken.

With richly engraved allegorical title and 7 full-page engraved plates in the first part, engraved device of Zacharias Heyns on general title, 4 separate titles, and 14 full-page engraved plates in the second part.

With richly engraved allegorical title and 7 full-page engraved plates in the first part, engraved device of Zacharias Heyns on general title, 4 separate titles, and 14 full-page engraved plates in the second part.



Amsterdam, Paulus van Ravesteyn, 1621. 2 parts in 1 vol. 4to. Modern vellum. With richly engraved allegorical title and 7 full-page engraved plates in the first part, engraved device of Zacharias Heyns on general title, 4 separate titles, and 14 full-page engraved plates in the second part. (10), 313, (1); (8), 634, (6) pp.

First volume of the Dutch edition of the works of W. Salluste, Seigneur du Bartas, translated by Zacharias Heyns (ca.1566-ca.1638), a famous Zwolle printer, engraver and literary author.

The volume contains:
1. "First week", or the "Seven Days of the Creation", first published separately at Zwolle in 1616. The present edition, published by Paulus van Ravesteyn at Amsterdam, without the variant prose-translations and illustrated with new and quite different plates, but also depicting the seven days of creation.
2. "Second week", sub-divided into 4 parts, with on general the publisher's address: "Tot Zwol. Anno  1621", and on the four separate titles, called: "Adam, ofte Eerste Dach van de Tweede Weke.- Noah, ofte Tweede Dach van de Tweede Weeke.- Abraham ende Moyses, ofte Derde Dach van de Tweede Weeke.-  David, en de Nacomelingen", the publisher's address of Paulus van Ravesteyn at Amsterdam.

Two songs from the third and fourth part: "De Vaderen", and "De Heerlykheydt", pp. 325-344, and pp. 504-557, were not translated by Heyns, but by the famous Dutch poet Vondel. The plates in this part are by the same artist who made the new plates for the first part, but they are not signed. A second volume of was published at Rotterdam in 1628, containing the fifth to seventh Day of the Second Week, and some other works translated by Zacharias Heyns.

Good copy.- (Portrait missing).
Bibl. Belg. H 66; Scheepers II, 677.

Related Subjects: Religion  Zwolle 

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