t' Amsterdam: Hendrick vander Putte, Papier en Boekverkooper op't Water, in de Lootsman, [n.d.]. Vellum. Early eighteenth century edition (based on imprint) of the Dutch poet and politician's rhymed dissertations on marriage and conjugal fidelity, first published in Dordrecht, in 1637. 16mo (159 x 97mm): [44],673,[3]pp, with additional engraved title..... more

t' Amsterdam: Anthony Schoonenburg, 1723. Three-quarter Calf. Eighteenth-century edition of Cats's masterpiece, with engravings by Breugel’s pupil Adriaan van de Venne. 16mo (152 x 99): [22],538pp, including additional engraved title page and with two hand-colored plates (one folding), showing children playing with crossbows, flying kites, doing handstands, and the like..... more

T'Amsteldam [Amsterdam]: Justus Dankerts, konst, kaert, en boekverkooper in de Kalverstraet in de Dankbaerheyt, 1683. Vellum. First edition of this emblem book by Dutch poet Anthoni Jansen, based on the 1607 Latin edition of Otto van Veen's enduringly popular Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata, illustrating the poems of Horace, with verses..... more

Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: apud Ioh. Ianssonium Iuniorem, 1659. Early Reprint. Vellum. Pocket edition of the most important anti-Machiavellian book of the seventeenth century, as well one of the most popular and most beautiful Spanish seventeenth-century emblem books. Text in Latin. 12mo (127 x 70mm): [24],832,[4]pp, with engraved title page, 101 nearly..... more