The School of the Heart: Emblems by Van Bolswert
Schola cordis, sive, Aversi à Deo cordis ad eumdem reductio, et instructio.
Antwerp: Apud Ioannem Meursium et Hieronimum Verdussium, 1635.
Price: $750.00
About the item
Second edition (first printed 1629). Engraved title-page, 55 full-page emblematic engravings by Boetius van Bolswert, decorative initials. [30], 631, [25]. Lacking first leaf *1 (printed title). 1 vols. 8vo. The School of the Heart: Emblems by Van Bolswert. Contemporary vellum, ms title on spine. Vellum a bit soiled, first gathering darkened, otherwise very good. Institutional bookplate. Landwehr, Dutch Emblem Books 77b.
Item #254818
Van Haeften (1588-1648) was a Bendictine writer and provost of the Monastery of Afflighem, Belgium.
