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FOKKE, Simon
- Emblematic representations of the Twelve Months with 8-line
rhyming French verses. Mounted on a broadside, c. 16,5 x 20,5 cm. In good condition.
Cfr. ill.
€ 250/450
Also mounted on the same sheet:
Lottery verses in Dutch
. [Antwerp?, 16th c.], 8 ll., gothic type.
Very small piece of paper, c. 5 x 8,5 cm. - Spigel voor de wulpsche ionckheyt. [Netherlands, 17th c.],
small engr., c. 5 x 3,5 cm (def.). Rare emblematic allegory of beauty and death, with Dutch verse,
showing a “Belle” turned into a skeleton when looking in a mirror.
- Piquier Polonais, [17th c.],
small engr., c. 7,5 x 5 cm.
Joined
: Two emblematical engravings, 17th c.: Oval frame, c. 9 x 7,2 cm, with a quarelling woman
(light) and man (dark) shown in profile. - Circular engr. portrait, diam. 7,6 cm, of a curious male
figure, with rhyming French verses in manuscript in margins.
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FIRENS, Petrus
- Africa, s.d. Tool engraving, 21,7 x 27,8 cm (trimmed to the platemark); signed.
Underlaid, stuck by corners and edges on a laid paper leaf, under passe-partout. Sm. wormhole in
upper left part.
Cfr. ill.
€ 200/300
From a set of 4. Nice allegorical pl. with elephants, crocodiles, lions, camels, etc.
Ref.
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Hollstein.
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