[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Emblem book, 1607

[Charles Agvent]

  [EMBLEM BOOK] VAENIUS [VEEN], Otto van. Q. HORATI FLACCI EMBLEMATA. 
Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisq[ue] illustrata, studio Othonis Vaeni 
Batauolugdunensis. Antwerp: Hieronymi Verdussen, 1607. First Edition. 
Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-1/2") bound in recent antique calf with calf corners 
retaining nineteenth century marbled boards and floral endpapers. 
Illustrated with a title page vignette of Horace and 103 full-page 
copper-engraved plates by C. Boel, C. Galle, and P. de Jode after Otto 
Vaenius, many quite striking, with verses in Latin, French, and Dutch on 
verso of preceding plate. Landwehr Dutch 240; Landwehr, Low Countries, 
678. Without the final blank (Dd4), not called for by Landwehr, and with 
pages 48 and 152 numbered correctly and no emblems pasted over. Old 
dampstain around the margins of about half the pages affecting mostly 
the bottom half of the page, but only visible in about a dozen or so 
plates and even then it is not too disconcerting. Very Good and complete 
with half-title page.         $4,500.00

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