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Rare Dutch Ovid, with 179 charming woodcuts

OVIDIUS NASO, Publius (OVID).
Den metamorphosis ofte herscheppinghe ... In onse Nederduytsche tale overgeset ende met figuren verciert elck tot sijnder historien dienende. Seer nut voor alle schilders, beeltsnijders, goutsmeden, ende liefhebbers der historien.
Rotterdam, Pieter van Waesberge, [1635]. 8vo. With engraved title-page, a full-page woodcut depicting the Creation in 6 small scenes, and 178 nearly half-page woodcuts in text after Virgil Solis. Contemporary vellum. Engr. t.-p. plus 425, [3 blank] pp.
€ 1,250
Very rare Rotterdam edition of the Dutch Ovid in the prose translation by Florianus, which stayed in use for over a century and illustrated with the Antwerp series of woodcuts based on Virgil Solis. In the Northern Netherlands the importance of Ovid's Metamorphoses for iconography was firmly established by the publication, in 1603-1604, of Carel van Mander's Schilder boeck. The title explicitly praises its value for painters, sculptors and goldsmiths.
With the bookplate of Dr. A.J. Minne. Binding slightly rubbed along the extremities, but otherwise in very good condition. Geerebaert CXXII, 1j; STCN (4 copies); cf. De Rynck & Welkenhuysen, De oudheid in het Nederlands, p. 276.
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