Emblemata, et aliqvot nvmmi antiqvi operis, Ioan. Sambvci Tirnaviensis Pannonii.

Description

Main Author

Zsámboki, János, 1531-1584.

Related Names

Ballain, Geoffroy, 16th cent.
Huys, Pieter, 1519-1581.
Heere, Lucas de, 1534-1584.
Kampen, Geeraard Jansen van, active 1564-1589.
Muller, Cornelis Jansz, approximately 1540-
Nicolai, Arnaud.

Language(s)

Latin

Published

Antverpiae : Apud Christophorum Plantinum, 1584.

Edition

Qvarta editio, cum emendatione & auctario copioso ipsius auctoris.

Subjects

Coins, Roman > Coins, Roman / Early works to 1800
Emblems > Emblems / Early works to 1800.
Woodcuts > Woodcuts / Belgium > Woodcuts / Belgium / 16th century.
Emblem books > Emblem books / Belgium > Emblem books / Belgium / 16th century.

Note

Signatures: A-Y⁸.
Plantin's device on t.p. (compasses). Author's port. on t.p. verso, signed A for Arnaud Nicolai, who with Cornelis Muller and Gerard Janssen van Kampen was responsible for cutting blocks for the emblems, after drawings by Luc de Heere and Pieter Huys (one by Geoffroy Ballain); see Voet. The section devoted to emblems is followed from p. 289 by that devoted to Roman coins; it is dedicated to Jean Grolier.
All copies printed at Leiden, but some (such as the present copy) received a t.p. with Plantin's Antwerp imprint; see Voet.
The 5th Latin ed., not the 4th. First published 1564. See Voet.

Physical Description

352 p. : ill., port. (woodcuts) ; 13 cm. (16mo in 8's)

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