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Wednesday 15 June 2022 e Thursday 16 June 2022, 03:00 PM • Rome

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Emblemi - Orazio Flacco, Quinto

Emblemata Imaginibus in aes incisis, notisque illustrata, 1683

Estimate

€ 200 - 300

Sold

€ 832

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Brussels, Foppens, 1683. In 4th. Frontispiece in red and black, portrait of the author within an oval on the frontispiece, large portrait of the engraver, with 103 engravings of emblems with French motto, text in Latin, French, Italian and Dutch, very rare and slight marginal blooms and reddening, light halo at the outer margin of the first cards, coeval parchment binding, gold title within the spine, some defects in the spine, slight defects. Ex libris on the counterplate and on the back of the title page. & Nbsp;

Specialist Notes

Elegant reissue of this famous book of emblems first printed in 1607 with splendid illustrations by the Flemish painter Otto Van Veen, Rubens' master.