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15861648421586. GALLE Philippe. Semideorum marinorum amnicorumque sigillariae imagines perelegantes in picturae statuariaeque artis tyronum usum a Philippo Gallaeo delineatae sculptae et aeditae. Engraved title-page followed by 17 numbered engraved plates. Antwerp: Galle 1586. BOUND WITH: Nimpharum oceanitidum ephydridum potamidum naiadum lynadumque icones in gratiam picturae studiosae ivventutis deliniatae scalptae et editae a Phillip. Gallaeo. Engraved title-page followed by 17 numbered engraved plates. Small 4to. 219 x 165 mm bound in contemporary Flemish vellum with title in manuscript on the spine. Preserved in a green half morocco folding box. Antwerp: Galle 1587. First Editions of both sets of prints designed and meticulously executed by Philipp Galle one of the foremost Flemish engravers of the day. These allegorical depictions of classical water deities and personifications of European waterways set male and then female figures among their appropriate geographical environment. The settings often include topographical or mythological iconography i.e. Nilus or the Nile shows a pyramid and obelisk in the background or Lerna with its Hydra in the distance however it is undoubtedly the figures themselves that are of most interest to the artist. They clearly show the influences of High Renaissance Italy with the musculature of the male figures evoking Michelangelo and the elongation of the female figures reminiscent of Parmigiano's Madonnas. Philippe Galle 1537-1612 ranks among his peers Johannes Stradanus 1523-1605 Martin de Vos 1532-1603 Adriaen Collaert 1560-1618 and Maarten van Heemskerck 1498-1574 as being known for introducing Italian art into the Northern Netherlands and influential on Dutch artists of the great period of pictorial art the Dutch Golden Age in the following century. Both sets of prints are rare. We locate a copy of both at the National Gallery a complete copy of just Semideorum marinorum at the Bibliotheque Nationale and a selection of odd plates at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and British Library. A very desirable copy bound in an un-restored contemporary vellum binding with nice impressions of the plates and wide margins. Some insignificant soiling or spotting. Brief early manuscript notes on the verso of seven plates. hardcover books