Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna :
singulis historijs symbola adscripta & elegantes versus historiam explica[n]tes : accessit galearu[m] expositio, & disceptatio de origine nobilitatis /
omnia recens collecta, inventa, et in aes incisa à Theodoro de Bry Leondiense = Stam und Wapenbuchlein : wolgestelte und kunstliche Figurn, sampt dere[n] poetische[n] Erklärung, auch vo[n] Adels Anku[n]fft beid fur Adels Perso[ne]n, und allerhandt Standt / vo[n] newem in Kupffer gestochen, durch Dietrich von Brÿ Leodien̄.

Description

Main Author

Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598.

Language(s)

Latin ; German

Published

Impressum Fra[n]co. ad M. : [s.n.] 1592.

Subjects

Heraldry > Heraldry / Early works to 1800.
Emblems > Emblems / Early works to 1800.
Libri amicorum > Libri amicorum / Germany > Libri amicorum / Germany / 16th century.
Copper engravings > Copper engravings / Germany > Copper engravings / Germany / 16th century.
Engravings > Engravings / Germany > Engravings / Germany / 16th century.
Emblems (allegorical pictures) > Emblems (allegorical pictures) / Germany > Emblems (allegorical pictures) / Germany / 16th century.
Emblem books > Emblem books / Germany > Emblem books / Germany / 16th century.

Note

Head-pieces; decorative initials.
Engraved title page, dedicatory coat of arms and introductory engraved emblem included in foliation. 91 engraved plates of which 69 are escutcheons, some repeated, and 22 are emblems, interleaved with blank pages for autographs and personal notes. The emblems are numbered A and 1-21.
Signatures: A-B⁸.

Physical Description

[32] p., [91] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 11 x 15 cm (8vo)

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