[Rarebooks] FS: Beautiful 1607 Emblem Book with 103 full-page copper-engraved plates

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $2500 NET

[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 leather 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.
Peter Paul Rubens was Van Veen's pupil for four years. (#012109)        
$3,500.00

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