Lot 950
950
EPIPHANIUS. Ad physiologum. Eiusdem in die festo Palmarum sermo. (Gr. & Lat.). Antw., Chr. Plantin, 1588. (16), 124, (11) pp. W. woodcut printer's device on title, 1 full-p. portr. of St. Epiphanius & 25 half-p. engr. illustr. after Pieter van der Borcht within typographical borders. Old limp vellum. (Spine a bit dam., bind. soiled, faint drawing on front side, first free endpaper gone, a bit browned/foxed).
Second edition. The first was published in Rome a year earlier. "Though not an emblem-book proper Epiphanius Ad Physiologum had a great influence on emblem-literature, and is rightly recorded among emblem-books in all catalogues" (Praz). - Voet, 1126; Adams, E-248; Landwehr, Emblem & Fable books, 162; Nissen ZBI, 1301; Praz, p. 328; Hoffmann II, 27.€ 1000
result € 700
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