BRUNE, J. DE.

First edition of a book of proverbs by a well-known Dutch humanist Nieuwe Wyn in oude Le'er-Zacken. Bewijzende in Spreek-woorden, 't vernuft der menschen, ende 't gheluck van onze Nederlandsche Taele.

      Middelburgh, Zacharias Roman, 1636.. 12mo. Contemp. vellum. With richly engraved allegorical frontispiece. (24), 496, (8) pp.. First edition of a book of proverbs by the well-known humanist author and poet Jan de Brune (1588-1658), a lawyer at Middelburg, and from 1649 "Raadspensionaris" van Zeeland. Proverbs were considered to contain in a nutshell all the wisdom of the human past, and therefore seen as an important means for education. In the present work De Brune collected thousands of proverbs, apart from the Dutch also from other languages, and added his own lines of verse to each of them, printed in Italics. At the end an index on subjects is given. Fine copy of a rare book of proverbs. Cat. Van Rijn 1062; Scheepers II, 85; Bernstein 776; NUC lists 2 copies.