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Emblemata.- Vaenius (Otto) Le Theatre Moral de la

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[and Le Tableau de Cebes ou L'Image de la Vie Humaine], 3 parts in 1, half-title, title in red and black and with an engraved vignette, engraved portrait, 103 near full-page emblematic illustrations, folding plate (in Le Tableau de Cebes) and head-pieces, woodcut initials, worm trace reducing to a wormhole to upper corner of all to F3, water-stained at foot and in gutters, lightly browned and spotted, a few small stains, contemporary calf, worn, [Praz pp523-524], folio, Brussels, François Foppens, 1678.

***A scarce emblematic work. We can trace only four other copies at auction since 1980, of which one was defective..

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