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Wednesday 18 November 2020, 10:30 AM • Rome

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Estienne, Henry

The Art of Making Devises: Treating of Hieroglyphicks, Symboles, Emblemes, Aenigma's, Sentences, Parables, Reverses of Medalls, Armes, Blazons, Cimiers, Cyphres and Rebus., 1650

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€ 400 - 500

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Information

London, John Holden, 1650. In 4th. With 10 plates engraved outside the text, two engravings in the text, headboards and xylographic initials, title page of the first edition (1646) inserted between the A1 and A2 paper, missing the front door, rare blooms, light browning, woodworm work on the lower outer margin of the last 3 issues, back parchment binding, slight stains. Signature of belonging to the title page.

Specialist Notes

English translation of the French author's treatise on heraldic symbolism, with 10 engraved plates, each with two engravings of Roman coins.

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