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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

2. Moral emblems : with aphorisms, adages, and proverbs, of all ages and nations / from Jacob Cats and Robert Farlie ; with illustrations freely rendered, from designs found in their works, by John Leighton ... ; the whole translated and edited, with additions, by Richard Pigot ...

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Creator:
Cats, Jacob, 1577–1660
Date:
1860
Physical Description:
xvi, 239 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. Album amicorum with drawings of regimental emblems, crests, and other subjects.

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Creator:
Strickland, V. L
Date:
1916
Physical Description:
1 volume (approximately 58 drawings) : watercolor, ink, and graphite on wove paper ; 10 x 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Friends of British Art Fund

4. Emblems, divine and moral, by Francis Quarles.

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Creator:
Quarles, Francis, 1592–1644
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
2 v. fronts. (v. 1: port.) plates. 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. Culs de lampe.

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Date:
1968
Physical Description:
20, [2] leaves : all ill. (some col.) ; 16 x 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts