Description

With engr. frontispiece, engr. title-page, 8 double-page engravings (The Four Seasons and The Four Elements), and 32 engravings ( 4 for each division) in the text. 4 unn. leaves, 10 pp., 142 pp. Folio (330 x 210 mm). Old boards. Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer for Ulrich Krauss, 1687. First edition. The Augsburg engraver-publisher Johann Ulrich Krauss' edition after Le Brun's Tapiseries Du Roy, Paris 1679, arranged as a collection of emblems in prais of royal virtues and of the person and magnanimity of a monarch. With German as well as French explanatory verses. Devices from miniature paintings by Jacques Bailly (1634-1679). Original text by Félibien, André sieur de Avaux et de Javrecy (1619-1695). Johann Ulrich Krauss (1655-1719) was known as one of the most enterprising and well-liked of the Augsburg engravers, and the husband of Johanna Sybilla Krauss, daughter of his old master Küslen, who engraved the plates for the present work.- Waterstained at the end, ms. number in ink on printed title, otherwise fine. - VD17 23:288787R (most copies are incomplete); Thieme/Becker XXI, 74 & XXII, 74; Berlin Cat. 1672; Faber du Faur 1846. EMBLEM BOOKS ; ART - GENERAL & APPLIED ;