Author: Alciatus, Andrea.
Title: Andreae Alciati I.V.C. Emblemata.
Description: Apud Lvgdvni: Apud Hæredes Gulielmi Rouillii, 1614. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [20]ff. 816pp. [12]ff. a8, e4, i8, A8-Fff8, Ggg4. First title-page in red and black. Printer's device of G. Roville's heirs (an eagle on a globe, and two serpents with tails interlaced, with motto: In virtvte et fortvna) on title page, woodcut headpieces, tailpieces, and initials. Pagination discrepancy. Page 704 bound with 707. Contemporary limp vellum. With 211 (wrongly numbered 213) nearly half-page emblems; 14 woodcuts of trees, and 197 emblematic woodcut illustrations. No. LXII without woodcut device. Green 141; Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish, and Portugese Books of Devices and Emblems 94; Duplessis 73; Collection of the Emblem Books of Andrea Alciati, Jurisconsult, in the Library of George Edward Sears, p. 22. Slightly waterstained. With a separate title-page to Notæ Posterioris ad Alciati Emblemata, but with continuous pagination. Text edited by Claude Mignault. Good.

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