Literature & Linguistics / Emblem, Fable & Songbooks

FONTAINE, Jean de la. Fables choisies, mises en vers par monsieur De La Fontaine...
Genève, J. Samuel Cailler, 1772. 2 volumes. 8vo. With titles printed in red and black, a portrait of De la Fontaine as frontispiece for volume 1, and Aesop teaching the animals as frontispiece for volume 2, 241 engraved illustrations to the 239 fables. Many woodcut and typographical endpieces. Marbled paper over boards, manuscript title on spine. [4], XLVIII, 256; [4], 352 pp. Full description

GAY, John. Fables.
London, printed for J. Tonson and J. Watts, 1727 (volume 1); printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738 (volume 2). 2 volumes. 4to. Volume 1 with an engraved illustration on the title page, and 51 engraved illustrations (1 for each fable) engraved by Gerard Vandergucht, Paul Fourdrinier, Bernard Baron and Andrew Motte. Volume 2 with an engraved frontispiece, showing Gay's memorial monument, a small engraved author's portrait on title page, and 16 engraved plates (one for each fable), engraved by Gérard Scotin after drawings by Hubert-François Gravelot. Green morocco (ca. 1900), richly gold-tooled spine and turn-ins, gold fillets on boards and board-edges, marbled endpapers, gilt edges (Riviere & son). [14], 173, [1 blank]; [12], 155, [1 blank] pp. Full description

GELLERT, Christian Fürchtegott. Fabelen en vertelsels, in Nederduitsche vaerzen gevolgd.
Amsterdam, Pieter Meijer, 1781-1784.
With: (2) GELLERT, Christian Fürchtegott. Bijdrage tot de gemeenzame brieven van C.F. Gellert uitgegeven door J.P. Bamberger. Utrecht, A. van Paddenburg & J.M. van Vloten, 1781. 2 works (the 1st in 3 volumes, the 2nd bound with volume 3). 8vo. With large allegorical engraving on title and 148 (of 149) full-page engraved plates by N. van der Meer after J. Buys and one original watercolour by J. Buijs illustrating the poem "Het Proces". Contemporary "run marbled" calf (more root-like than tree-like), gold-tooled spine, gold fillets on boards, black morocco spine labels. [4], 166, [2]; [2], 168, [4]; [4], 155, [5]; [2], VI, 103, [1] pp. Full description

[GIJSEN, Jan van or Aaron van HULKENROY]. Het vermaaklyk buitenleven, of de zingende en speelende boerenvreugd. Met zangkunst verrykt, en tot gemak der speelers op de G sleutel gesteld.
Haarlem, Weduwe van Hermanus van Hulkenroy, 1716. 4to. With an etched frontispiece, an etching of a mermaid on the title, 2 folding etchings, 2 full-page etchings, and 21 etchings in the text, all after Adriaen van Ostade. Further with musical annotation to all songs. Early 19th-century marbled boards. [8], 63, [1] pp. Full description

GODDAEUS, Conrad. Nieuwe gedichten. Sonder rym, naa de Griexe en Latynse dicht-maten, op allerhande soorten van verssen, ingestelt. Noit voor desen in Neder-duits gesien, noch gebruiklik.
Harderwijk, Joannes Toll, 1656. Oblong 4to. With woodcut of King David playing his harp on the title page, a fine engraved frontispiece with an open music book below the title in centre, which is flanked by King David playing his harp and Horace playing his lyre, each on a pedestal, with a white swan above and publisher's address below. Contemporary mottled calf. [4], 184, [2] pp. Full description

[GOETTHEM, Pieter van (attributed)]. La lyre d'Apollon en poësies meslées, et les mieux choisies de ce temps. Composées par un Zelandois, & amateur dicelles. En cançons, Aïrs, rondeaux, estrenes, & epitaphes, &c.
Middelburg, Pieter van Goetthem, 1657. Oblong 16mo. With the title page, and page 5 and 7 printed in red and black, 2 decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut tailpiece. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 2 supports laced through the joints. 432 pp. Full description

GOLIUS, Theophilus. Educationis puerilis linguae Graecae.Including: AESOP. Fabellae quaedam Aesopi Graecae, ad puerilem educationem selectae.
Frankfurt, [printed by Erasmus Kempfer?] for Nikolaus Stein, 1618-1619.
With: (2) [GOLIUS, Theophilus]. [Grammaticae, sive educationis puerilis linguae Graecae. ... Pars altera].
3 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With 2 title-pages, the first with woodcut printers device. Contemporary vellum (made from one leaf from a 14th or 15th century moral manuscript, rubricated in red and blue), red edges. [50], [38]; 512, [32] pp. Full description

HAEFTEN, Benedictus van. Regia via crucis.
Antwerp, Balthasar Moretus (Officina Plantiniana), 1635. 8vo. With an engraved title page and 38 full-page emblematic engravings. Richly gold-tooled calf (ca. 1665), each board with the arms of (apparently) Abbot Placidus Buechauer (1611-1669) of Kremsmünster, gilt and elaborately gauffered edges. XL, 404, [26], [2 blank] pp. Full description

HARDUWIJN, Justus de, and Hermann HUGO. Goddelycke wenschen verlicht met sinne-beelden, ghedichten en vierighe uyt spraecken der Oud-Vaders. Naer ghevoilght de Latynsche vanden Eerw. P. Hermannus Hugo ... door Justus de Harduyn P.
(Colophon:) Antwerp, Hendrick Aertssens, 1629. 8vo. With an engraved title page, a full-page engraved coat of arms, a full-page ornamental woodcut, 45 full-page engraved emblematical plates by Boëtius à Bolswert, and a woodcut printer's device on the final page. Contemporary overlapping vellum. [16], "604" [=602], [6] pp. Full description

HEEMSKERK, Jan van. Minne-kunst. Minne-baet. Minne-dichten. Mengel-dichten.
Amsterdam, Hessel Gerritsz, 1626-1627. 4 parts in 1 volume. Oblong small 8vo. With 4 separate titles, and 20 fine engraved plates, including frontispiece, by Pieter Serwouters. Modern vellum. [8], 446, [2] pp. Full description