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Auction archive: Lot number 695

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (c 3 BC-65 AD) Philosophi opera quae ...

Estimate
US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$687
Auction archive: Lot number 695

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (c 3 BC-65 AD) Philosophi opera quae ...

Estimate
US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$687
Beschreibung:

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (c. 3 B.C.-65 A.D.) Philosophi opera quae extant omnia. Edited by Justus Lipsius. Antwerp: Platin Press, 1615.
SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (c. 3 B.C.-65 A.D.) Philosophi opera quae extant omnia. Edited by Justus Lipsius. Antwerp: Platin Press, 1615. 2 o (360 x 235 mm). Engraved title and 2 (of 3) engraved portraits by C. Galle after Rubens, woodcut printer's device at end (lacks portrait of Lipsius). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, center stamp of the Crucifixion dated 1573, blank panels stamped: "F.I.G.A.P.A.W. 1629," by first owner, original brass clasps, edges blue (minor staining to lower cover.) Provenance : F.I.G.A.P.A.W., 1629 (binding); Cistercian Monastery (inscription on title); Rev. John Stirton (armorial bookplate); Clifford Rattey (bookplate); acquired from Harry A. Levinson, 1971. FIRST EDITION with the illustrations after Peter Paul Rubens. A superb example of printing by the Plantin Press, edited by Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), a Flemish humanist and professor at Jena and Leyden. His edition of Seneca, first printed in 1605, was a new revision of the text after the manuscript. Hofer, Baroque Books 121; Graesse VI:348.

Auction archive: Lot number 695
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 June 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (c. 3 B.C.-65 A.D.) Philosophi opera quae extant omnia. Edited by Justus Lipsius. Antwerp: Platin Press, 1615.
SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (c. 3 B.C.-65 A.D.) Philosophi opera quae extant omnia. Edited by Justus Lipsius. Antwerp: Platin Press, 1615. 2 o (360 x 235 mm). Engraved title and 2 (of 3) engraved portraits by C. Galle after Rubens, woodcut printer's device at end (lacks portrait of Lipsius). Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards, center stamp of the Crucifixion dated 1573, blank panels stamped: "F.I.G.A.P.A.W. 1629," by first owner, original brass clasps, edges blue (minor staining to lower cover.) Provenance : F.I.G.A.P.A.W., 1629 (binding); Cistercian Monastery (inscription on title); Rev. John Stirton (armorial bookplate); Clifford Rattey (bookplate); acquired from Harry A. Levinson, 1971. FIRST EDITION with the illustrations after Peter Paul Rubens. A superb example of printing by the Plantin Press, edited by Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), a Flemish humanist and professor at Jena and Leyden. His edition of Seneca, first printed in 1605, was a new revision of the text after the manuscript. Hofer, Baroque Books 121; Graesse VI:348.

Auction archive: Lot number 695
Auction:
Datum:
20 Jun 2013
Auction house:
Christie's
20 June 2013, New York, Rockefeller Center
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