Theater moral de la vida humana, en cien emblemas; con el Enchiridion de Epicteto, y La tabla de Cebes, philosofo platonico: With 103 engravings
by Venius, Otto van Veen
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- Folio. 14 x 9 inches * 6, ** 4, *** 2, A-Z4, 2A-2C4 / a4, a-f4, g2
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Antwerp: Amberes,[Antwerp] Por Enrico y Cornelio Verdussen 1701, 1701. third Edition. This large folio is bound in full contemporary vellum with gilt tooling. Snags repaired in the blank of the title page and on the folding Engraving , without damaging the text. Scattered freckles. Good copy. Folio. 14 x 9 inches * 6, ** 4, *** 2, A-Z4, 2A-2C4 / a4, a-f4, g2. The Rubens master. Landwehr, Dutch 240; Landwehr, Low Countries 678. (cfr. PRAZ, Studies in seventeenth-century imagery I pp.523-524 & Peeters Fontainas Bibliographie des impr. espagn. des Pays-Bas mérid. 1275;. This Emblem book is made up of three Stoic works, beginning with Text from Horace in latin with 103 copper plates of engravings, That is a full page engraving of Vaenius by his daughter Gertrude van Veen engraved by Pontius. These emblems also appeared in "Emblems from Horace, but not directly, these engravings represent both allegoric and general passages from Horace, the texts are in Spanish.
¶ The Horace is followed The Table of Cebes Which has a large folding plate (16 x 13 inches) Cebes' Tablet is an Ekphrastic work interpreting a probably mythical Tablet which symbolically represents "the whole Truth of Human life" Cebes is one of the characters in The Phædo of Plato. Xenophon tells us that Cebe was in the inner circle of Socrates' friends. This is followed by The ENCHRIDION of Epictetus, in spanish. ¶This manual is a 'hands-on'philosophical collection of epigrams which promises to free the mind from Fear and enslavement to false Ideas.
¶ The Horace is followed The Table of Cebes Which has a large folding plate (16 x 13 inches) Cebes' Tablet is an Ekphrastic work interpreting a probably mythical Tablet which symbolically represents "the whole Truth of Human life" Cebes is one of the characters in The Phædo of Plato. Xenophon tells us that Cebe was in the inner circle of Socrates' friends. This is followed by The ENCHRIDION of Epictetus, in spanish. ¶This manual is a 'hands-on'philosophical collection of epigrams which promises to free the mind from Fear and enslavement to false Ideas.
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- Bookseller
- James Gray Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 97
- Title
- Theater moral de la vida humana, en cien emblemas; con el Enchiridion de Epicteto, y La tabla de Cebes, philosofo platonico
- Author
- Venius, Otto van Veen
- Illustrator
- The Rubens master
- Format/Binding
- This large folio is bound in full contemporary vellum with gilt tooling. Snags repaired in the blank of the title page and on th
- Book Condition
- Used - Folio. 14 x 9 inches * 6, ** 4, *** 2, A-Z4, 2A-2C4 / a4, a-f4, g2
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- third Edition
- Publisher
- Amberes,[Antwerp] Por Enrico y Cornelio Verdussen 1701
- Place of Publication
- Antwerp
- Date Published
- 1701
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Emblem book , Spanish,
- Bookseller catalogs
- 17th century;
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