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Whether it is wise to marry
[SWEERTS, Hieronymus].De tien vermakelikheden des houwelyks. Spotsgewijze beschreven door Hippolytus de Vrye, weduwnaar. Nevens Het Huw'lijks Doolhof, van I. de Mol, en een Bericht, of 't raadsaam is te trouwen.      Den tweeden druk. Vermeerdert, verbetert, en met nieuwe kopere platen verçiert. Amsterdam, Hier. Sweerts, 1678. 2 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Old boards. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece, and 10 full-page engraved plates in the main work. 172; 48 pp. Rare early edition of a very popular erotic satire on the pleasures of marriage, from the courting to the wedding and the festivities around the first-born, with a long poem on the "labyrinth of marriage" by Jan de Mol added at the end. Hieronymys Sweerts (1627-1696), was a book printer and publisher at Amsterdam, and also a poet and popular author of merit. On title of the main work a small woodcut of 2 sheep is present, and the title of the second work is adorned with a large woodcut vignette with fruits and flowers. Nice copy.- (Binding sl. rubbed, spine gone).
Buisman 2213; Waller 1627; Scheepers I, 459; Gieles-Plak 318; cf. Sale Cat. J.L. Beijers, Jan. 1959 (Coll. Versnel), 785 (ed. of 1683-1684); Sale Cat. Coll. Buisman 511 (9th ed. of 1696-1697, incomplete copy); see also: the new text-ed. by E.K. Grootes, Amsterdam, Querido, 1988, published in the "Griffioen-reeks".
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