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LOT 468
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[Emblemata] Amoris divini emblemata, studio et aere Othonis Vaeni concinnata

Antwerpen, ex Officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1660, 127,(1) p., with engraved title illustration and 60 engraved illustrations, 19th-century gilt half leather, all edges gilt, 4to.

Good copy with owner's stamp of Clair Tisseur on title page (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Tisseur). At the end with handwritten owner's marks of the priests Claudius Duban and Benedictus Thivent. The first edition of these emblems of Divine love appeared in 1615, this is the second edition. Otto van Veen (1557-1629) was court painter of Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma and of the Archdukes Albrecht of Austria and Isabella of Spain, also instructor of Peter Paul Rubens. After 1600 Van Veen increasingly devoted himself to the publication of emblemata books.

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