[EMBLEMATA] [Giovanni Battista CACACE ]- Theatrum omnium sci - Lot 265

Lot n° 265
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[EMBLEMATA] [Giovanni Battista CACACE ]- Theatrum omnium sci - Lot 265
[EMBLEMATA] [Giovanni Battista CACACE ]- Theatrum omnium scientiarum siue Apparatus, quo exceptus fuit ex C.mus princeps d. Innicus de Gueuara, et Tassis comes de Onnate, & Villamediana, &c. ac Neapolitani regni prorex sapientissimus in Neapolitana Academia in instauratione Studiorum anni 1649... Neapoli, Robertus Mollus typographus excudebat, 1650. In-4°, [11 (including title-frontispiece)]-105 [ff. 1-56, 69-78 interleaved with 65 ff. n.c.]-[2] ff. (ring of wetness f. 29, 3 browned ff. including 2 pl., (qqs freckles and traces of handling not serious, the emblems have been numbered in brown ink in an old hand). Vellum with small flaps, 4 green silk ribbons, handwritten title on spine (contemporary binding). (Some foxing on the boards). Fine margins. Rare first edition superbly illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece with medallion portrait of the dedicatee, Innico de Guevara comte d'Ondimba, and 63 emblems (icons, animals, plants, etc.) including 9 full-page female allegories, all copper-engraved by Nicolas Perrey. Numerous ornaments in the text. The work contains 21 odes in Latin, a few essays in Italian and short prologues. Ref. Praz, pp. 293-294; Landwehr, Romanic, no. 196. Provenance: Handwritten bookplate of Leonard de Wilde, 1686 (on frontispiece); armorial bookplate of the Dukes of Arenberg at Nordkirchen Castle.
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