Iconologia: or, Moral emblems : By Caesar Ripa. Wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies ; as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and modern Italians useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity: Illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters. By the care and at the charge of P. Tempest. [Emblem Book] First English edition.

Ripa, Cesare (Cesar)

Published by London : Printed by Benj. Motte, MDCCIX. [1709]

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4to. 17.5 x 21.5 cm. New goatskin and marbled boards by the Russian-American binder Sasha Mosalov. [viii] and 81 pages of text facing 81 plates with 326 engravings.Rosemary Freeman, English Emblem Books, pp.74-225 passim; Lowndes, Bibliographer's Manual, IV, p. 2007; Mario Praz, Studies in Seventeenth Century Imagery II, p. 140; OCLC Number: 731312413. Very good.

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• Title: Iconologia: or, Moral emblems : By Caesar Ripa. Wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies ; as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans and modern Italians useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity: Illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters. By the care and at ...
• Publisher: London : Printed by Benj. Motte, MDCCIX. [1709]
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
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