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![In Effigiem Ioannis Iacobi Boissardi Vesvntini. [Greek script... ] In Eandem Effigiem A Nic. Lassaeo Affabre Fictam, Laelÿ Cleopassi Galathei. Oiffardi egregia ora pinxit arte Spirante in tabula, & sere loquente.](jpegs/21050.jpg)
In Effigiem Ioannis Iacobi Boissardi Vesvntini. [Greek script... ] In Eandem Effigiem A Nic. Lassaeo Affabre Fictam, Laelÿ Cleopassi Galathei. Oiffardi egregia ora pinxit arte Spirante in tabula, & sere loquente. Naturae aemulus artifez. Quid inquit. Bella in nos Lachesis, parantur ista... Vita in perpetuum tibi erogata est, Inuitis etiam, Iacobe, fatis.
[Jean-Jacques Boissard.]
[Cum priuilegio Regis Hisapniarum & Cancellarij Brabantiae as sex Annos. 1581.]
Engraved portrait and letterpress text, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining.
Portrait of Jean Jacques Boissard, as a foreward page. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21050] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
[Jean-Jacques Boissard.]
[Cum priuilegio Regis Hisapniarum & Cancellarij Brabantiae as sex Annos. 1581.]
Engraved portrait and letterpress text, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining.
Portrait of Jean Jacques Boissard, as a foreward page. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21050] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)
Caspar Rutz vonn Mecheln, zu dem Leser. Nachdem heytiger Tag, vil, und mancherley Bücher beschrieben, auch zu Kupffer gestechen werden, welche der Landtschafften, unnd Städt gelegenheit unnd underscheid... So aber jemands von begirde, dergleichen Kleydungen von andern Völckren mehr zusehen, damit willen wir inne, zur unsern ersten Büchern gewiesen haben, inn denen sich nun ein jeder seines gefallens, unnd willens zuerholen hab. Mit privilegie von seyne Maiestät, Unnd den Cancellier Von Brabandt für sechs Jaren.
Mit privilegie von seyne Maiestät, Unnd den Cancellier Von Brabandt für sechs Jaren. [1581.]
Letterpress, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining, crease lower left-hand corner.
The dedication in German of the publisher Caspar Rutz of Mecheln to the reader. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21051] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Mit privilegie von seyne Maiestät, Unnd den Cancellier Von Brabandt für sechs Jaren. [1581.]
Letterpress, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining, crease lower left-hand corner.
The dedication in German of the publisher Caspar Rutz of Mecheln to the reader. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21051] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Ad Lectorem. Caspar Rutz Mechliniensis. Cum Molti hodie tum scripti tum scalpti libri sint, qui regiones varias, variarumcq regionum urbes ijs qui ex tabulis pictos addiscere mundos coguntur ob oculos ponant...ut omnium oculos, unde suauissime pascantur habituros confidam. Si quos hic alios aliarum nationum habitas desiderabis, eosalterum nostrum volumen superioribus annis editum, dabit: quibus fruere pro arbitratu tuo. Vale. Coloniae. A Illustres et Vertueuses Damoiselles, Mes Damoiselles Nicole et Loyse De Vienne Filles de Haut de Puissant Seigneur Messire Claude Antoine de Vienne Seigneurde Cleruant Copet etc. Ian Iaques Boissard Bisuntin. Mes Damoiselles, i auote deliberé de tenir serré mon recueil de divers habits, et n'i estoye resolu ne le iamais mettre en lumiere pour estre veu imprimé, m'esmourant à celà plusieurs bonnes et legitimes raisons, so voz persuasions ne mu eussent poußé... et qui prennent plaisir à telles choses, aymans mieux se paistre de semblables bonnestetez que perdre le temps a une infinité de vanitez et folies es quelles a pluspart des filles de nostretemps se plaiet & delecte... Au pere Iuppiter un superbe hecatombe ains abbreuue souuent l'agnelet son dutel.
[Jean-Jacques Boissard.]
[1581.] Cum priuilegio Regis Hisapniarum & Cancellarij Brabantiae as sex Annos.
Letterpress, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining.
Dedicated in French to Nicole and Louise de Vienne, the daughters of Huguenot leader Claude Antoine de Vienne (1534?-1855), with a preceding foreward in Latin. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21048] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
[Jean-Jacques Boissard.]
[1581.] Cum priuilegio Regis Hisapniarum & Cancellarij Brabantiae as sex Annos.
Letterpress, paper watermarked. 273 x 369mm. 10¾ x 14½". Water staining.
Dedicated in French to Nicole and Louise de Vienne, the daughters of Huguenot leader Claude Antoine de Vienne (1534?-1855), with a preceding foreward in Latin. From "Habitus variarum orbis gentium, Habitz de nations estranges, Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyss", a series of costume plates representing figures from various parts of the world, engraved after desgins by Jean-Jacques Boissard (1528-1602) and published by Caspar Ruts (fl.1575).
See BM: B,3.1.
[Ref: 21048] £75.00 (£90.00 incl.VAT)
Silvano Littorali et Musae Laches. Silvain 1. CLXXVIII. Pl a la 276. page T1.
Boissard.
[Franckfurt : Zufinden bey Matthäi Merians seel. Erben, 1681.]
Engraving, framed. Visible area 159 x 178mm (6¼ x 7"). Frame 377 x 374mm (14¾ x 14¾").
Silvanus, the Roman tutelary deity of woods and fields seen here with a woman and a cupid; he is depicted here as half-fawn, half-man.
[Ref: 29522] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Boissard.
[Franckfurt : Zufinden bey Matthäi Merians seel. Erben, 1681.]
Engraving, framed. Visible area 159 x 178mm (6¼ x 7"). Frame 377 x 374mm (14¾ x 14¾").
Silvanus, the Roman tutelary deity of woods and fields seen here with a woman and a cupid; he is depicted here as half-fawn, half-man.
[Ref: 29522] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
Q. Luctatius Q.F. Mens Silvano D.D. 2.
[Boissard.]
[Franckfurt : Zufinden bey Matthäi Merians seel. Erben, 1681.]
Engraving, framed. Visible area 159 x 178mm (6¼ x 7"). Frame 377 x 374mm (14¾ x 14¾").
Silvanus mocked by two cherubs, panpipies and flutes on the ground by his feet; behind is a herm, primly depicted with a leaf rather than the traditional phallus.
[Ref: 29523] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)
[Boissard.]
[Franckfurt : Zufinden bey Matthäi Merians seel. Erben, 1681.]
Engraving, framed. Visible area 159 x 178mm (6¼ x 7"). Frame 377 x 374mm (14¾ x 14¾").
Silvanus mocked by two cherubs, panpipies and flutes on the ground by his feet; behind is a herm, primly depicted with a leaf rather than the traditional phallus.
[Ref: 29523] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)