[Emblemata] Hofferus, A. Nederduytsche Poëmata
Amst., Broer Jansz., 1635. (40),400 p., lacking p. 17-24 (=quire C), engr. title and 20 of 22 large circular emblems, partly by C. de Passe the Younger, 19th-cent. hroan, sm. 4to.
From the library of Adriaan Celosse, who was a poet preacher in Ridderkerk. He added an original verse on verso of title-p., six lines, signed by him and dated 1670. Binding sl. rubbed; pages 50-116 darkly stained in upper corner; later pages occas. unobtrusively waterstained. Landwehr 317; Praz p.370; De Vries 161; Hollstein 186. The very rare first and only edition of this beautiful emblembook.