Verlag: 1606,, 1606
Anbieter: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Marly, Schweiz
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15 x 18.5 cm. (images), Au total: 4 titres ill. + 107 planches gravées, taches et rousseurs par-ci, par-là, traces d?usage généralisées, cartonnage simple ancien. (Usé). (20x28 cm). (La feuille: 25x19 cm). 4 séries ens. 1) Titre ill. + planches num. 1 à 29 (titre monté anciennement) / 2) 1 f. titre illustr. + planches 1 à 25 / 3) 1 f. de titre ill. + planches 1 à 24 / 4) 1 f. de titre ill. + planches 1 à 29, (la dernière planche: Nicoleos Helveticae cantes (= Nicolas d. Flue).Thomas Deleu dessinateur et graveur, né à Paris en 1562 mort vers 1620 (Ec. Franç.). Il travailla à Paris et à Amsterdam. Cette suite à également été gravé (avant) par Raphael & Johannes Sadeler, (1560-1632) et Johannes (1550-1600), d?après Maarten de Vos, (1532-1603).This edition is an anthology of four works with captions in Latin, each part with an unnumbered illustrated titlepage. The work depicts hermits and saints in natural surroundings and daily devotions. 1) SOLITUDO, SIVE VITAE. has 26 plates. / 2) Trophaeum vitae. 25 plates / 3) ORACULVM. 24 plates / 4) Monumenta factioris 29 plates. For a total of 4 titles and 107 plates. First 2 plates mounted (old) on stiff paper.Each plate has four lines of verse engraved at foot. Most plates signed Thomas de Leu, all the plates have been engraved after engravings by Adriaen and Jan Collaert after paintings and drawings by Maarten de Vos, as published by Claes Jansz. Visscher. -- cf. Brunet, vol. 5, col. 23, Sadeler (Raph. et Joan.).Zus. 4 gest. illustr. Titel und 107 Kupfertafeln. O. O. (Paris?) 1606. - Thieme/B. XXIII, 143f. und Nagler VIII, 414. - Seltene Kupferstichfolgen des aus Nordfrankreich stammenden Kupferstechers und Verlegers Thomas de Leu (1562-1620). Die prachtvollen Kupfer zeigen Eremiten und Heilige in phantasievoll und detailreich ausgestalteten Landschaften, vor Dörfern, Städten und Klöstern, mit Tieren etc.Please notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Benezit Vol. 3, p.154.
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S.l. (Paris) ; s.d. ( after 1602 -before 1612), format oblong in-4°, print size 138 x 180 mm. Paper size 190 x 285 mm. The suite consists of an engraved title + engraved frontispiece + 24 plates (numbered 2 - 25). Bound in modern imitation leather. Some plates with faint waterstains or dust soiling; title page with some minor and marginal soiling. On the whole a good quality copy with large margins. The title page (without date or place of imprint) depicts Saint Francis within an architectural border. On either side of the portrait are two engraved dedications to the widowed princesse Marie de Luxembourg, duchess of Pentheure. Her husband Philip Emanuel de Lorraine died in 1602; therefore the printing date after 1602. The frontispice gives another portrait of St. Francis surrounded by the smaller portraits of the four virtues. All the plates are signed ''Thomas de Leu ex.''. The plates numbered 2 ->25 have a bi-lingual caption (Latin and French) which explains or comments the depicted scene. Some of the plates depict miracles performed by St. Francis. At the end is bound in a similar plate which obviously does not belong to the suite. Thomas de leu was born in Oudenaarde ( actual Flanders, Belgium) and learned engraving in Antwerp. Around 1578 he moved to Paris. The style of the engravings show clearly the Antwerp influence from designers and engravers such as Stradanus, Maarten De Vos etc. This suite is apparently quite rare. OCLC lists only four copies : Nat. Libr. of Schotland and University of Barcelona library, Münster and BN Paris.