L. Annaei Senecae Philosophi Opera Omnia & M. Annaei Senecae Rhetoris Suasoriae, Controversiae — Complete Set of 3 Volumes (Tomus I, II & III)

Complete set of three volumes of the first Elzevier edition of the works of both Senecas — the Philosopher and the Rhetor. Volume I (1640): Opera Omnia with magnificent engraved frontispiece featuring Stoic philosophers. Volume II (1639): Epistolae ad Lucilium & Quaestiones Naturales. Volume III (1639): Suasoriae, Controversiae cum Declamationum Excerptis, in the recensión of Andreas Schottus. All three volumes in contemporary vellum bindings, sound and firm. Elzevier typographic device (“Non Solus”) on title pages of Volumes II and III. Early manuscript annotations in several hands throughout. Outstanding provenance: each volume bears the engraved armorial bookplate of Petrus Daniel Huetius (Pierre-Daniel Huet, 1630–1721), Bishop of Avranches, one of the most celebrated humanist scholars of 17th-century Europe and a central figure of the Republic of Letters, with inscription recording his donation of his entire library to the Jesuit House of Paris in 1692: “Ex libris Bibliothecae quam Illustrissimus Ecclesiae Princeps D. Petrus Daniel Huetius Episc. Abrincensis Domui Professae Parif. PP. Soc. Jesu integra vivens donavit An. 1692.” Additional ownership inscription “D. de R. 1671” in manuscript on Volume III. Red stamp of a conventual library (Burgos, Spain) also present.…