1650 Scarce French Philosophy Book - SENECA Consolation to Helvia, his Mother & Polybius

 

Author : Seneca the Younger - SENEQUE.
Title : Consolations de Seneque, a Marcia, a Helvia sa Mere, et a Polybius. De la Version de P. Dv-Ryer.
Language : Text in French
Publisher : A Paris, Chez Antoine de Sommaville, 1650.
Size : 5 " X 3.5 "
Pages : 418 pages
Binding : Very good full calf binding (hinges fine, overall worn and scuffed - as shown)  under a removable protective mylar cover .
Content : Good content (bright, tight, small hole on the lower margin without affecting the text - as shown, very nice exlibris with unicorns of Messire Bernard de Noblet Chevalier Comte de Chenelette Lieutenant des Mareschaux de France).

Estimation : (USD 200 - USD 400)

The book : Scarce 17th century edition of Two of Seneca's earliest surviving works date from the period of his exile—both consolations. In his Consolation to Helvia, his mother, Seneca comforts her as a bereaved mother for losing her son to exile. Seneca incidentally mentions the death of his only son, a few weeks before his exile. Later in life Seneca was married to a woman younger than himself, Pompeia Paulina. It has been thought that the infant son may have been from an earlier marriage, but the evidence is "tenuous". Seneca's other work of this period, his Consolation to Polybius, one of Claudius' freedmen, focused on consoling Polybius on the death of his brother. It is noted for its flattery of Claudius, and Seneca expresses his hope that the emperor will recall him from exile.

The author : Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – AD 65),[1] fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature.