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VAENIUS, Otto

Q. Horati Flacci Emblemata imaginibus in aes incisis notisque illustrata studio Othonis Vaeni Batauolugdunensis

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ex off. Hieronymi Verdussen
1607

€975,00

In-4°, 212 pp, engraved portrait of Horace on title, and 103 full-page engraved emblems by Boel, Galle, and de Jode after Veen, full calf binding (18th c, some rubbing.), gilded edges, marbled endpapers

FIRST EDITION OF VEEN'S FAMOUS EMBLEM BOOK. The text is compiled from Horace and other classical sources; the emblems after van Veen combine Netherlandish traditions with Southern German and Italian mannerist currents. Van Veen settled in Antwerp in 1585, with Peter Paul Rubens as his pupil from 1596 to 1600. Provenance: Le comte D. Boutourlin; F. Boucquillon. Heckscher & Sherman, Emblem Books in the Princeton University Library, 746; Landwehr, Low Countries 817; cf. Praz p. 523 for the Dutch/French edition

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