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Book Condition: Used Folio. 14 x 9 inches * 6, ** 4, *** 2, A-Z4, 2A-2C4 / a4, a-f4, g2
Seller: James Gray Bookseller

United States
About Item: Antwerp: Amberes,{Antwerp} Por Enrico y Cornelio Verdussen 1701, 1701. third Edition. This large folio is bound in full contemporary vellum with gilt tooling. Snags repaired in the blank of the title page and on the folding Engraving , without damaging the text. Scattered freckles. Good copy. Folio. 14 x 9 inches * 6, ** 4, *** 2, A-Z4, 2A-2C4 / a4, a-f4, g2. The Rubens master. Landwehr, Dutch 240; Landwehr, Low Countries 678. (cfr. PRAZ, Studies in seventeenth-century imagery I pp.523-524 & Peeters Fontainas Bibliographie des impr. espagn. des Pays-Bas mérid. 1275;. This Emblem book is made up of three Stoic works, beginning with Text from Horace in latin with 103 copper plates of engravings, That is a full page engraving of Vaenius by his daughter Gertrude van Veen engraved by Pontius. These emblems also appeared in "Emblems from Horace, but not directly, these engravings represent both allegoric and general passages from Horace, the texts are in Spanish. ¶ The Horace is followed The Table of… Read More
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