[Emblemata-composite] Duodecim specula deum aliquando videre desideranti concinnata.

Auctore P. Ioanne David Societatis Iesu Sacerdote. Antwerp, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Ioannem Moretum, 1610, (16),184,(15) p., with engraved title and 12 engr. illustrations (full-page) in text, 18th-cy gilt half-leather, small 8vo.

Cardboard of casings visible in corners, overall a good copy. First edition of this wonderfully illustrated work about 12 mirrors mankind uses to try and see God, written by Jan David (1543-1613), title page and illustrations by Theodoor Galle (1571-1633). Bound after: Paradisus sponsi et sponsae in Quo: Messis myrrhae et aromatum, ex instrumentis ac mysterijs Passionis Christi colligenda, ut ei commoriamur, et Pancarpium Marianum Septemplici Titulorum serie distinctum: ut in B.Virginis odorem curramus, et Christus formetur in nobis. Auctore P. Ioanne David. Antwerpen, Ex Officina Plantiniana, Apud Balthasarum et Ioannem Moretos Fratres, 1618 (=1607)/ 1607, 2 parts, (16),212,(3); (16),213,(2) p., each part with engraved title page, one unnumbered plate (identical) and 50 numbered engraved plates, each with caption in Latin, Dutch and French. Preface of part 1 with pasted title, somewhat smaller in size and added to binding separately (= from other copy). Only these first 16 pages are 2nd edition, the rest is first edition from 1607: last page with printer's address and date M.DC.VII, the same page in the 2nd edition reads M.DC.XVII [sic]. The second part of our copy has its own title page dated 1607. Two wonderful series of 50 engravings by Theodoor Galle.