Lot 3369: Boissens, Cornelis Dircksz (1569-1635). , Grammato-graphices. In quo varia scripturae emblemata, belgicis, germanicis, italicis, hispanicis, gallicis, et latinis characteribus exarata. Amsterdam: [Cornelis Claeszoon], 1605

oblong folio (225 x 338mm.), ff. [49 (including engraved title-page and letterpress dedication leaf)], engraved throughout except for dedication leaf, on one side only, illustration : 48 plates of calligraphic scripts, one incorporating a small portrait, binding : eighteenth-century vellum-backed boards, lacking 4 (of 5) letterpress leaves and portrait

Bonacini 232; Berlin Catalogue 5009 (both incomplete)

rare first edition of the third work by one of the earliest Dutch writing masters, with examples of formal and informal gothic and humanistic hands. While the present copy lacks, as often, 4 letterpress leaves and a portrait, it is complete with 48 engraved calligraphic plates.