Devises et emblemes anciennes & modernes, tirées des plus celebres auteurs, oder, Emblematische Gemüths-Vergnügung :
bey Betrachtung siben hundert und funffzehen der curieusesten und ergötzlichen Sinn-Bildern, mit ihren zuständigen teutsch-lateinisch-französisch- und italianischen Beyschrifften.

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Language(s)

German ; Latin ; French ; Italian

Published

Augspurg : Verlegs Lorentz Kroniger und Gottleib Göbels Seel[enfreund] Erben, 1695.

Edition

Zweyte Aussfertigung.

Subjects

Emblem books.

Note

Modern marbled paper with quarter leather binding.
The bottom half of plate 4 and p. 5 have been torn off and repaired with blank paper. Frontispiece and bottom of p. 2 also repaired.
Full page engraved frontispiece.
Signatures: [pi]² A-N [$2 signed (-A, +A, N missing)].
Text briefly describes each emblem in German then includes an accompanying motto in Latin with French, Italian and German translations.
The publisher pasted in revised plates over the original plates 12, 41 and 44.
Pagination 2-51 with opposite pages bearing accompanying plate and duplicate numbering.
Half title: Devises et emblemes curieux anciennes & modernes, tirées des plus celebres auteurs : nouvellement inventées en latin, en françois, en italien, en allemand.

Physical Description

[4], 51, [1], p., [50] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. (4to)

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