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Emblemata - Picinelli, Filippo

A symbolic world made up of companies chosen, explained, and illustrated with sentences, and eruditions, 1678

Estimate

€ 160 - 200

Sold

€ 461

The price includes buyer's premium

Information

Venice, Paolo Baglini, 1678. Allegorical chalcographic frontispiece, frontispiece in red and black ink with beautiful woodcut vignette, with 52 emblems illustrated in the text, small restoration in the end cap, missing a paper in the first issue, some gore d water and marginal blooms, small hole in the outer margin, woodworm hole in the inner margin of the last issues, rare small spots, some files partially detached from the body of the text, 2G2-6 papers detached, half parchment binding, defects. Ownership note and stamp on the title page.


Specialist Notes

Important collection in the form of a dictionary of emblems, symbols and companies, designed to be easily consulted.

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