Author: VEEN (Otto Van):
Title: Quinti Horatii Flacci Emblemata. Imaginibus in æs incisis, notisque illustrata. Studio Othonis VænI Batavo-Lugdunensis. Editio nova correctior, & SS. Parrum, Senecae atquae aliorum Philosophorum & Poetarum Sententiis, novilque Versibus auctta.
Description: Bruxellis, Apud Franciscum Foppens, Bibliopolam sub signo Sancti Spiritus. 1683. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION of this printing. 4to, 276 x 222 mms., pp. [viii], 250 [206 - 207 index, 208 blank], including half-title, title-page in red and black with engraved vignette, engraved portrait of Veen on page [vii], 103 engraved emblematic plates, handsomely rebound in full antique-style panelled calf, raised bands on spine, gilt rolls on edges, morocco label; title-page with flourishes in ink and signatures, stain to upper margin of several leaves, just touching plate edge in two instances, some very minor soiling, but generally a very good copy rebound by a master craftsman. It would be pleasant to think that the flamboyant inscription on the title-page is probably that of Pierre Ménard, the seventeenth-century Parisian bookseller / publisher / printer to the philosophers and literati of the day, signing himself as Petrus Ménard, but BnF gives his death date as ?1664. The Netherlands artist Otto van Veen (1556 - 1629; also known by his Latinized name as Otto Vaenius) studied with various European artists before settling in Brussels, where he was court painter to Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma until 1592. He continued to work for various members of the European aristocracy, and his later work turned to scenes of battles and later books of emblems. He produced the painting for these engravings and the work was published in 1607. In this 1683 edition the engravings are attributed by Nagler and Bryan to Gijsbert van Veen (1558 - 1630), Otto's brother.

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