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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ripa, Cesare, 1560â1645
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1709
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Books
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18th century
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emblem book
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Brent Ely Library -- Bookplate.
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Emblems -- Early works to 1800.
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Symbolism in art -- Early works to 1800.
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The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)
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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.
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Ripa, Cesare, 1560â1645
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MDCCIX [1709]
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[4], 81 leaves, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (326 emblems on 81 plates) ; 24 cm.
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Rare Books and Manuscripts