Jacob Cats - Alle de wercken - 1655

All the works of the Lord Jacob Cats, Schipper edition, the first edition of the collected works of Jacob Cats from 1655. With many dozens of beautiful engravings and emblems.

Title:
All the works, old as well as new, of Sir Jacob Cats, Knight, Old Grand Pensionary of Holland and West Friesland, etc. Amsterdam, Schipper, 1655.

Original title-page vignette / page is missing, apparently already in the 19th century replaced by a typographic title. Otherwise complete and in good condition, except for a tear or stain here and there, normal wear for a book of this size and age. In total more than 1400 pages, weight over five kilos.

Contents with various pagination, complete to the best of our knowledge and belief:
Preface by J.J. Schipper, 1655; various ‘threshold poems’, preface etc. pp. [1-16].
Sense and Love-images, Emblemata, or Images of Wit; pp. 1-152.
Self strife; pp. [1-20], 1-30.
The Theatre of Manly Honour; pp. [1-4], 1-15, [1-5].
Marriage; pp. 1-195, [1-7].
Galathea etc.; pp. [1-2], 1-32.
Mirror of the Old and New Times; pp. [1-8], 1-184.
The World’s Beginning, Middle, and End, concluded in the wedding-ring … etc.; pp. [1-18], 1-266, [1-6].
Old Age, Country-life etc.; pp. [1-12], 1-184.
Court-thoughts ... etc.; pp. 1-84.
Queenly Shepherdess Aspasia … etc.; pp. 1-60.
The Marriage … under the conception of a Fuyck; pp. 1-24 (+ illustration outside pagination)
Death-chest; pp. [1-8], 1-36.
Death-chest for the living … etc.; pp. 1-160 (+ illustration outside pagination)

Complete collation (subject to errors):
π1 2a-2b4 2π1 A-M6 N4, *-2*6 2A6 2B8 2*/3A6 3B6, 4A-T6 4V4, a4 5A-O6 5P8, 3*8(*1+χ1) 6A-Y6 6Z4, 2a6 7A-O6 7P8, 8A-G6, 9A-E6, 10A-B6, 3a4 11A-C6, 12A-M6 12N8