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ELGER (Willem den). ZINNE-BEELDEN DER LIEFDE Amsterdam, Jan Roma de Jonge, 1732. In-4° of [12]-368 pages, stiff vellum (contemporary binding). First edition of this remarkable book of emblems. The poetic works of the Dutch humanist are decorated with figures in intaglio, after the collection Amoris Divini et Humani antipathia; these 50 love emblems feature Cupid playing cards, stealing honey, playing the piano on an organ keyboard, smoking a pipe or skating on the ice... A beautiful frontispiece precedes the text of these poems printed in Dutch, French and Italian. One spine slightly cracked, freckles. (Landwehr 214) (Praz 322-23).
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ELGER (Willem den). ZINNE-BEELDEN DER LIEFDE Amsterdam, Jan Roma de Jonge, 1732. In-4° of [12]-368 pages, stiff vellum (contemporary binding). First edition of this remarkable book of emblems. The poetic works of the Dutch humanist are decorated with figures in intaglio, after the collection Amoris Divini et Humani antipathia; these 50 love emblems feature Cupid playing cards, stealing honey, playing the piano on an organ keyboard, smoking a pipe or skating on the ice... A beautiful frontispiece precedes the text of these poems printed in Dutch, French and Italian. One spine slightly cracked, freckles. (Landwehr 214) (Praz 322-23).
