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SADELER Joannes ( engraver-publisher ) - Maarten De VOS ( designer ) :
Reference : 53934
Bonorum et Malorum consensio & horum praemia, illorum poena. Ad serenissimum & illustrissimum Principem D.D. Ferdinandum , Archiducem Austriie.....
Antwerpen - Mainz ( Coeptum Antverp: Absolutum Moguntiae), I Sadeler auct. et sculpsit. (Martin de Vos figuravit), 1586. Complete suite of 15 engravings (title page + 14 engravings). Bound in contemporary full calf, gilt decorated spine. Expertly rebacked ( early restoration), The engravings measure 223 x 273 mm. The leaves, mounted on guards measure 270 x 360 mm. Some marginal dustsoiling at some plates but on the whole in fine condition . The engravings depict scenes from ''Genesis''. All the plates except the title plate are signed by I. Sadeler as engraver and Martin de Vos as designer. De Vos' name is omitted from the title plate which might be an indication that I. Sadeler was also the designer of the title plate. As indicated on the title page the work was started in Antwerp and finished in Mainz. Joannes ( Jan ) Sadeler ( Brussel 1550 - Venezia 1600) had left Antwerp around 1580. See Holstein 1980 , XXI, p. 89 and following.
SADELER Joannes ( engraver-publisher ) - Maarten De VOS ( designer ) :
Reference : 53944
Boni et Mali scientia & quid ex horum cognitione, a condito Mundo sucraeverit declaratio....
" Antwerpen, Ioann. Sadler excud. 1583. Complete suite of 12 engravings (title page + 11 engravings); loose plates, kept in a modern full cloth portfolio within a similar slipcase. The engravings measure 193 x 270 mm. Printed on strong paper without a watermark. Some marginal dustsoiling at the plates, (more so at the title plate), some small marginal brown spots (due to paper impurities), but on the whole in good condition . The engravings depict scenes from ''Genesis''. ( Adam & Eve; Kain & Abel....) All the prints are signed in the plate I. Sadeler (Brussel 1550 - Venezia 1600) as engraver and Martin de Vos (Antwerpen 1532 -1603) as designer. New Hollstein XLV 25-36.."
