78/3190 [Emblemata]. Hilaire, I. Speculum Heroicum. Principis omnium temporum Poëtarum. Homeri, Id est argumenta xxiiij. librorum Iliados in quibus veri principis Imago Poëticè, elegantissime exprimitur. Les XXIIII. livres d'Homère. Reduict en tables demonstratives figurées, par Crespin de Passe, excellent graveur. Chacque livre redigé en argument Poëticque. Utr./ Arnhem, Cr. Passaeus/ I. Janssonius, 1613, together 38 leaves, 10 lvs. prel. texts, including an emblematical title-engr. with a portrait of Homer and a fine large oval portrait of Hilaire, 4 textlvs. at the end, 24 lvs. w. half-page engrs. by C. DE PASSE THE ELDER, with Latin and French verses below and with versos blank, late 19th cent. giltlettered hcalf, sm. 4to.

- Cut short as often at fore-margin, occas. touching/ affecting letters; large armorial bookplate on upper pastedown; title and 1 engr. w. tiny ruststain. Upper joint splitting. The plates in splendid impressions, with margins.

= Franken 1345; Hollstein XV, 857; Landwehr, Romanic emblem books 382; Praz 446. The very rare first and only edition of this beautiful emblem book. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE LXXXVIII.