'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
Author: 
Sichem, Christoffel van, 1581?-1658.
Published: 
t' Amsterdam : By Pieter I. P., 1648.
Description: 
800 (i.e., 760), [4] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; 19 cm (8vo)
Credit: 
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."

Binding: 
Dark brown morocco, stamped in gold on spine and front. All edges gilt.
Variant Title: 

Geheele leben ons heeren Iesu Christi naer de vyer evangelisten.

Provenance: 
Virtue and Cahill Library (bookplate); collection of E. Clark Stillman.
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Department: 
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