Book collecting emblems (allegorical illustrations) with accompanying explanatory text

French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems 1534-1827 : a bibliography / John Landwehr.

Alle de wercken, zoo oude als nieuwe / van de Heer Jacob Cats ... Vermeerdert met des Autheurs tachtigjarigh leven, en bedenckingen op Zorgvliet.

Petri Costalii Pegma, cum narrationibus philosophicis / [Pierre Coustau].

Partheneia sacra. Or The mysterious and delicious garden of the sacred Parthenes : symbolically set forth and enriched with pious deuises and emblemes for the entertainement of deuout soules; contriued al to the honour of the incomparable Virgin Marie mother of God; for the pleasure and deuotion especially of the Parthenian sodalitie of her Immaculate Conception. By H.A.

Hieroglyphikes of the life of man. Fra: Quarles.

Divine emblems: or, Temporal things spiritualized . Fitted for the use of boys and girls. By John Bunyan.

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Divine emblems: or, Temporal things spiritualized . Fitted for the use of boys and girls. By John Bunyan.