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SMIDS, Ludolph

"Pictura loquens; sive heroicarum tabularum Hadriani Schoonebeeck"
Amstelaedami
ex off. Hadriani Schoonebeek
1695
€300 - €400

8vo, [16]-240-[16] pp. Engr. front., title ill., dedication (with bust and arms of N. Witsen) and 60 full-page engravings by Schoonebeek. They were afterwards used in ""Histoire mythologique des dieux"" (1715). The engraver Adriaan Schoonebeek (1660-1714), a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe became the art instructor of Peter the Great. Very fine in original vellum

Bookplate of Robert Hayhurst.
Ref. Brunet V, p.412; Praz p.498 (wrongly described as an emblem-book in the Thompson Yates cat.). Gallery of historical and mythological pictures (of e.g. Andromeda, Ariadne, Oedipus, as well as of Hannibal and Marcus Antonius), pairing illustrations with quotations from classical and modern Latin authors and the interpretations of these texts by the Dutch physician L. Smids (1649-1720)

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