First and only edition of one of the lesser-known emblem books by the Dutch painter and poet Otto Vaenius (1556-1629). It contains a diverse selection of emblems, which, according to the title, were meant for princes, clergymen, military men and others. Each emblem is accompanied by a motto in Latin above and short captions in Latin and French can be found on the accompanying letterpress pages. Today Vaenius is best known as a teacher of Peter Paul Rubens and for his role in the development of the genre of emblemata, in particular the love emblems. His Amorum emblemata is "one of the most important Dutch emblematical works. It firmly established Vaenius as a leading emblematist after his glorious beginning with the famous moral-philosophical neo-stoic Emblemata Horatiana (1607)" (Van der Weij).
With the armorial bookplate of Henrici de Brosia on paste-down. Browned and slightly foxed throughout, margins thumbed with a few owner's notations. Overall a good copy. Landwehr, Emblem and fable books 840; Praz, p. 526; cf. Van der Weij, Emblems of the Low Countries (2003), pp. 45-46.