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1733. BOOK. (HUMANITIES). [VENIO, OTTO:]. THE MORAL THEATER OF HUMAN LIFE IN ONE HUNDRED EMBLEMS; WITH EPICTETUS’ ENCHIRIDION AND THE TABLE OF CEBES, A PLATONIC PHILOSOPHER. Antwerp: By the widow of Henrico Verdussen, 1733. Folio. 10 leaves (including an engraved portrait of the author) and a large double-page engraving serving as a frontispiece, explained in the following section of the work, with a two-color title page bearing the printer’s large mark engraved on copper by “Paulus Pontius,” based on a drawing by his daughter + 207 pp. Illustrated with engravings in the text. [Continued:] The Table of Cebes: 27 pp. The plate at the beginning of the volume. [Continued:] ENCHIRIDION BY EPICTETUS GENTILIS, WITH ESSAYS BY CHRISTIANO... Id. 4 folios + 50 pp. + 1 folio. Includes the half-title page, which is often missing in many copies. Very clean and without restoration. Bound in half-leather over cardboard with scuffed corners, from the late 19th century. A beautiful book of emblems with impressive engravings. Woodcut capital letters. Palau 358578 lists only 100 emblems.