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't Schat der zielen, dat ist: het geheele leben ons heeren Iesu Christi naer de vyer evangelisten. Naer vervolgh des tijdts by een ghevoeght, in seven stucken verdeelt. / Met seer schoone figuren verciert / gesneden door C. van Sichem, voor P.I.P.

Accession number
PML 126141
Creator
Sichem, Christoffel van, 1581?-1658.
Published
t' Amsterdam : By Pieter I. P., 1648.
Credit line
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman; 1995.
Notes
Title within architectural border.
Numerous pagination errors and signing irregularities.
Figures 51 and 478 are replacements pasted over original illustrations.
Second title page at p. [599]: "'tBosch der eremyten ende eremitinnen, van Ægypten ende Palestinin, met figuren van Abraham Blommaertm door Christophorus á Sichem ... by Pieter Iacobsz. Paets ..." Paging and signing are continuous.
Extra page, on different stock and not included in the signing, inserted between pp. 226 and 227.
Pencilled note (corroborated) at figure 478: "Vid. p. 464. cut underneath is a duplicate."
Bookplate of Virtue and Cahill Library is over-stamped with the note: "Following enemy action in 1941 and dispersal of the library, the Bishop and Cathedral Chapter agreed to the dispersal of the books for better care and to the advantge of scholars 1967."
Description
800 (i.e., 760), [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Virtue and Cahill Library (bookplate); collection of E. Clark Stillman.
Binding
Dark brown morocco, stamped in gold on spine and front. All edges gilt.
Classification
Department