Live auction - Lot 1345
[Emblems]
Theatro moral de la vida humana, en cien emblemas; con el Enchiridion de Epicteto, y la Tabla de Cebes, philosofo platonico.
Antwerp, Widow H. Verdussen [Anna Margaretha Blanckaert], 1733
Hammer price: €
450
€ 300 / 400
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Lot description
3 parts in 1 vol., folio: [20]-207-[1], 27-[1 bl.], [8]-50-[1-1 bl.] pp. (some light browning and spotting).
19th-c. shagreen, gilt flat spine (repaired). Good copy.
Excellent Spanish edition of Vaenius' emblems, followed by some very popular classical philosophical texts. Title edition of the 1701 ed. Engr. ill.: full-page portrait of Vaenius by Paulus Pontius after the painting by Gertrude Vaenius, 103 large rectangular emblems and a folding plate with the "Tabula Cebetis". Large engr. mark on title, woodcut mark on part title. Title printed in red and black.
Ref. Peeters-Fontainas 1275. - Landwehr (Low Countries) 792. - STCV. - Not in Emblem books Leiden.