ALCIATUS, LIBER EMBLEMATUM... KUNSTBUCH... 1580.

ALCIATUS, ANDREAE. Liber emblematvm ...Kunstbuch...allen Liebhabern der freyen Künst, auch Malern, Goldschmiden, Seidenstickern vn(d) Bildhauwern, jetzund zu sonderm nutz vnd gebrauch verteutscht uvnd an tag geben durch J.Held von Nördlingen ... Frankfurt am Mayn, Nicolaum Bassee,1580.

Small 8:o (binding about 160x105 mm.). (13), 1-130, (7, last leaf blank) ll. Title printed in red and black with woodcut printers device, last page with fullpage woodcut printers device, 130 woodcuts in text by Jost Amman and Virgil Solis.
Contemporary vellum, worn, blindtooled frames and decorations, upper joint partly split, upper board with old inkstains, lacks first endpaper. Minor foxing. Title with old signature in lower margin. Bookplate and library label of Joseph Wünsch on inside of upper board.

VD 16, A 1647. Third German edition.

Provenance: Sven Borgström was born in Malmö in 1927 and worked as a chemist in Stockholm, Malmö and Lund. His fine library which was built up over many years, consists mainly of older books dated from the 15th century to the late 18th century.
His book-collecting began, as it perhaps should, with an incunabula. Borgström's interests included printers, book bindings, book illustrations, and he was interested in history, travel and maps. As a result of previous coin collecting, the subject of numismatics was also of interest in his library. Sven Borgström died 95 years old.

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