Vaenius Octavius (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Folio, lacking first two leaves, *1 & *2 (one of which is the title) and two text leaves (F3 & H2). 207 pp. Engraved portrait of the dedicatee and numerous engraved emblems throughout. Defective copy of this rare emblem book, sold as is. Part one only, without the Enchiridion de Epicteto Gentil, with evidence of an interesting cancellation on page 81 (leaf L1) featuring two letterpress slips: at the top the headline, page number, and title of the engraving; at the bottom five lines of verse, signature mark, and catchword; two separate slips of paper and pasted onto the sheet, with the engraving printed over the cancel slip at the top. Bound in handsome 20th century full Spanish calf. Leaves with scattered staining, tears, and occasional losses throughout. Sold as a collection of emblems.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VENIUS, OTHO (OTTO VAN VEEN)) (illustrator). First Edition. Two parts 105 copper engraved plates plus head pieces, tail pieces & initial letters. Part I To accompany Horace's Poems: xvi, 121 pp. Title Page in Red & Black with Vignette, Au Lecteur, Sonnet, Table, Portrait of Venius engraved by Paulus Pontius. Explication by Gomberville with 60 Engraved Copper Plates. Part II To accompany Horace's poems plus the Cebes Tableau: Title (122), 123-211 pp. Au Lecteur, Explications & 43 Plates; (1) Folding Plate; Le tableau de Cebes, 16 pp. VAN VEEN (1556-1629) Painter, humanist, Ruben's teacher, noted for his emblem books. Lovely full black Morocco binding, raised bands, gilt titling. Plates & text no foxing, no soiling, occasional marginal soil, title page age-toned. 2 faint marginal embossed library labels. Very Good. Book.

Encuadernacià n de tapa dura. Condition: Muy bien. Folio. (18) 207 [1] & 27 & [8] 50 [1]pp. Bound in original brown calf, 4 raised bands. Title in red and black ink. lustrated with engraved printer's device at title page and 103 large emblems and a double-page engraving with the "Tabula Cebetis", with engraved portrait of Venius. Nice and complete copy with wide margins.

3 parts in 1 volume (with the addenda "Enchiridion de Epicteto and "Tabla de Cebes", [18] 207 [1] & 27 [1bl] & [8] 50 [1] pp., illustrated with engraved printer's mark at title page and 103 large emblems and a double-page engraving with the "Tabula Cebetis", the engraved portrait of Venius is missing, title in red and black, some spots and stains mainly at the last 80 pages text always readible very well), modern binding in fine condition (marbled plates, spine in leather with title in gilt), 39cm., Spanish translation of the French edition "Le theatre moral de la vie humaine" (cfr. PRAZ, Studies in seventeenth-century imagery I pp.523-524 & Peeters Fontainas Bibliographie des impr. espagn. des Pays-Bas mérid. 1275), good copy, Y91273.