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Naples, Giacomo Carlino & Antonio Pace, 1592. In 4°. Three books in one volume, printer's device on the title page, dozens of oval emblems throughout the text, marginal halos, especially on the first and last leaves, 18th-century half-leather and spotted cardboard binding. Ex libris stamped on the title page by G. Gabrielli of Ascoli.
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First edition of the most interesting treatise on emblematics, complete with numerous illustrations. The work, dedicated to the scholar Giovan Battista Crispo, is divided into three parts: the first deals with how to "carry out the enterprise," the second with hieroglyphics, symbols, and mystical matters, and the third with "depicting the emblems of many natural things." Cicognara: "This volume contains 300 small, elegantly carved woodcuts, and the illustrations exhaust the material with order and clarity" (Cicognara 1871). Manzi, Annali di Orazio Salviani 166: "one of Salviani's most beautiful books." Brunet I, 1557; ; Praz II, 35.
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