Emblemata.- Predestination.- Drexel (Jeremias) Zodiacus Christianus, seu signa XII. divinae Praedestinationis, 12 full-page engraved emblematic illustrations by Raphael Sadeler, title with ownership name trimmed away from upper-margin, A6 small abrasion affecting few letters, [Landwehr German, 231; Praz 319], 1632, bound with Horologium Auxiliaris Tutelaris Angeli, 2 full-page engraved illustrations, one with small loss to upper blank corner, title with stain to inner-margin and verso of preceding blank, some very light water-staining, 1631, together 2 works in 1 vol., both with engraved pictorial title and final blank, lower hinge cracked, upper mostly broken but holding by one or two cords, contemporary vellum, yapp edges, spine titled in a later hand, slightly stained, Cologne, Cornelius van Egmondt; and 3 others by the same, 16mo et infra (4)

⁂ The first mentioned a rare edition at auction. Drexel presents what he considers to be the 12 signs of predestination; namely the lit candle, skull, pix (host container), plain altar, rosebush, fern, tobacco plant, cypress, two crossed lances, whip and switch, anchor and lute.