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Silenus Alcibiadis, sive, Proteus : vitae humanae ideam, emblemate trifariàm variato, oculis subijciens

by: Cats, Jacob, 1577-1660; Schillemans, Frans, b. 1575; Venne, Adriaen Pietersz. van de, 1589-1662; Swelinck, Jan Gerrits, b. ca. 1601

Publication date: 1618

Publisher: Middelburgi : Ex officina typographica Iohannis Hellenij

Collection: getty; americana

Contributor: Getty Research Institute

Language: Latin; Dutch; French

Second ed. Pts. 2-3 have added explanatory texts in Latin and Dutch, and lack the additional impressions of the emblematic ill. which occur in the 1st ed. See Landwehr

Pts. 2-3 have title: Sileni Alcibiadis sive Proteos pars secunda[-tertia]

Each pt. has added engraved t.p. by F. Schillemans after A. van de Venne. The 51 emblematic ill. in pt. 1 are probably by Jan Swelinck; see Landwehr. Pt. 2 has a double-page plate illustrating children's games. Woodcut t.p. vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, initials

Landwehr, J. Emblems books in the Low Countries

Binding: later vellum, stamped and tooled in blind. Author & title written at head of spine

John Landwehr's printed label on front pastedown. Bibliographical notes written on facing endpaper