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  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • A man pounding a mixture with a pestle and mortar - an emblem from a drug jar. Watercolour.
  • Iconologia, overo descrittione d'imagini delle virtù, vitij, affetti, passioni humane, corpi celesti, mondo e sue parti / Opera de Cesare Ripa ... Fatica necessaria ad oratori ... scultori, pittori ... per figurare con i suoi proprij simboli tutto quello, che può cadere in pensiero humano. Di nouo in quest' vltima editione corretta diligentemente, & accresciuta di sessanta e più figure poste a luoghi loro: aggionteui copiosissime tauole per solleuamento del lettore.
  • Andreae Alciati Emblematum fontes quatuor : namely, an account of the original collection made at Milan, 1522, and photo-lith fac-similes of the editions, Augsburg 1531, Paris 1534, and Venice 1546 / edited by Henry Green ; with a sketch of Alciat's life and bibliograpical observations respecting the early reprints.
  • Los emblemas de Alciato. Traducidos en rhimas españolas. Añadidos de figuras y de nueuos emblemas en la tercera parte de la obra / [Andrea Alciati].
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Emblèmes de la mort : le dialogue de l'image et du texte / Gisèle Mathieu-Castellani.

    Mathieu-Castellani, Gisèle. | Date: 1988
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    Theater of fine devices / [translated by] Thomas Combe ; introduction by Mary V. Silcox.

    La Perrière, Guillaume de, 1499-1565. | Date: [1990], ©1990
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    Le caducée au cours des âges : symbolisme religieux; types divers de cet emblème.

    Lenoury, Louis. | Date: 1925
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    Le caducée et la symbolique dravidienne indo-méditerranéenne, de l'arbre, de la pierre, du serpent et de la déesse-mère / J. Boulnois ; index par mme. L. Boulnois ; préface de G. Jouveau-Dubreuil.

    Boulnois, J. (Jean) | Date: 1989
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    Caduceos y juramnetos médicos / Raimundo de Castro y Bachiller.

    Castro y Bachiller, Raimundo de, 1878-1954. | Date: 2000
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