Hart-Spiegel [and] Bijspraakx Almanak

H.L. Sp[ieghels Hart-Spiegel, verciert met schoone koopere platen. [2 parts in one volume]. Amsterdam. Johannes Colom. 1650. Small 8vo, vellum, title with illustrated vignette [drowning person on fish with harp], 120,(2) and (2),(41) pp.

The first volume with 7 of 9 books, each devoted to one of the nine muses [= all published, unfinished due to the author's death, leading to the absence of Polyhymnia and Urania]. At the end the Byspraakx almanak with a similar illustrated vignette as at the front and aphorisms and advice for every day of the year. Complete with 7 copperplates in the text with the 7 chapters [books]. Name stamp on endpaper, somewhat shaken in binding. Early and scarce publication.