"8vo, [16]-240-[16] pp. Engr. front., title ill., dedication (with bust and arms of N. Witsen) and 60 full-page pls by Schoonebeek. They were afterwards used in ""Histoire mythologique des dieux"" (1715). The engraver Adriaan Schoonebeek (1660-1714), a pupil of Romeyn de Hooghe became the art instructor of Peter the Great. Old gold-tooled mottled calf, decorative gilt border on covers, gilt spine with morocco label, a.e.g., marbled endpapers (sl. rubbed, sm. def. to label). Nice copy"
"Prov. Old ownership entry on title (partly deleted). Ref. Brunet V, p.412; Praz p.498 (wrongly described as an emblem-book in the Thompson Yates cat.). Gallery of historical and mythological pictures (of e.g. Andromeda, Ariadne, Oedipus, as well as of Hannibal and Marcus Antonius), pairing illustrations with quotations from classical and modern Latin authors and the interpretations of these texts by the Dutch physician L. Smids (1649-1720)"
