[AYRES, PHILIP.] Emblemata Amatoria. Emblemes d'Amour en Quatre Langues. [92] leaves, including pictorial...

[AYRES, PHILIP.] Emblemata Amatoria. Emblemes d'Amour en Quatre Langues. [92] leaves, including pictorial title and 45 full-page illustrations, with Latin, Italian, French, and Dutch text on facing pages. entirely engraved throughout. 8vo, 155x95 mm, contemporary calf gilt, covers slightly warped, cover corners worn through; adhesive stains and partly removed bookplate on front endpapers, scattered minor spotting. "A Londe [sic] chez l'Amoureux," nd [i. e., Netherlands, circa 1700?]

Estimate $800 - 1,200

Reprint, with reversed copies of the illustrations and the English text replaced with Dutch, of a 1683 London collection of love emblems mostly derived from the 1608 Amorum emblemata of Otho Vaenius. Adams F.228.

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