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Collection Rare Books and Manuscripts

Period 18th century

Subject Terms Emblem books -- Specimens.

1. A collection of emblematical figures : moral and instructive / chiefly composed from the Iconology of cavaliere Cesare Ripa, Perugino ; exhibiting the elements and celestial bodies, seasons and months of the years, hours of the day and night, quarters of the world, the principal rivers, the four ages, the muses, the senses, arts, sciences, dispositions of the mind, virtues and vices ; as represented by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; containing upwards of four hundred human figures, engraved from original designs, with their explanations ; illustrated by variety of authorities from classical authors ; together with an introductory discourse on the science of iconology ; the whole collected and arranged by George Richardson ...

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Creator:: Ripa, Cesare, 1560–1645
Date:: 1777
Physical Description:: [12], vii, 49 p., 24 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:: Rare Books and Manuscripts