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细节
VAENIUS, Otto (Otto van VEEN, 1556-1629). Amorum emblemata, figuris Aeneis incise. Antwerp: Venalia apud Auctorem, Hieronymus Verdussen, 1608.
Oblong 4° (156 x 195mm). Latin, Dutch and French text. Woodcut title vignette, one engraved full-page illustration and 124 emblems, each within an oval woodcut frame, one by C. Boel, the rest by Vaenius. (Title soiled, a few mainly marginal repairs, stain on 2B4v and 2C1r affecting image of the latter, a few margins a little frayed, some browning and spotting.) 19th-century half vellum. Provenance: scored through inscription on title – [H. Yates Thompson] -- A. H. Bright (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS POLYGLOT VERSION. The charming engravings show Cupids encountering the various trials of Love. 'Tous sont traités avec infiniment de finesse et de talent' (Vinet). Funck p. 404; Landwehr Low Countries, 825; Praz, p. 524: 'among the most popular books of emblem literature'; Vinet 861.
Oblong 4° (156 x 195mm). Latin, Dutch and French text. Woodcut title vignette, one engraved full-page illustration and 124 emblems, each within an oval woodcut frame, one by C. Boel, the rest by Vaenius. (Title soiled, a few mainly marginal repairs, stain on 2B4v and 2C1r affecting image of the latter, a few margins a little frayed, some browning and spotting.) 19th-century half vellum. Provenance: scored through inscription on title – [H. Yates Thompson] -- A. H. Bright (bookplate).
FIRST EDITION OF THIS POLYGLOT VERSION. The charming engravings show Cupids encountering the various trials of Love. 'Tous sont traités avec infiniment de finesse et de talent' (Vinet). Funck p. 404; Landwehr Low Countries, 825; Praz, p. 524: 'among the most popular books of emblem literature'; Vinet 861.
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This is not a first edition, but like most copies on mixed sheets from the two editions of 1608.
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