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Zurich, Johann Rudolff Wolff, 1622 (for Orell Füssli, 1820). With 40 numb., nearly full-page emblematic engravings by Christoph Murer. 6 lines rhymed text below the engravings. 6 unn. pp., 40 leaves. 4to (228 x 170 mm). Contemp. marbled boards (rebacked). Zurich, Johann Rudolff Wolff, 1622 (for Orell Füssli, 1820), Christoph Murer (1558-1614) was one of the most important figures among the artists in Zurich. These engravings are well- done compared to the sometimes low or mediocre standards of emblem books. This important series of pictures proves the full fillment of Murer's development, that was influenced by Dutch art. This series of XL Emblemata was first published in 1622. The copper plates remained intact and were in possession of the company Orell Füssli, who made this present new edition in 1820.- Slightly foxed. - Lonchamp 2531; Leemann-van Elck, Die zürcherische Buchillustration, p. 89 & 96; Vignau-Wilby, "LX. Emblemata Miscella Nova" (1982). EMBLEM… Read More

Zurich, Johann Rudolff Wolff, 1622 (for Orell Füssli, 1820). With 40 numb., nearly full-page emblematic engravings by Christoph Murer. 6 lines rhymed text below the engravings. 6 unn. pp., 40 leaves. 4to (228 x 170 mm). Contemp. marbled boards. Zurich, Johann Rudolff Wolff, 1622 (for Orell Füssli, 1820), Christoph Murer (1558-1614) was one of the most important figures among the artists in Zurich. These engravings are well- done compared to the sometimes low or mediocre standards of emblem books. This important series of pictures proves the full fillment of Murer's development, that was influenced by Dutch art. This series of XL Emblemata was first published in 1622. The copper plates remained intact and were in possession of the company Orell Füssli, who made this present new edition in 1820.- Slightly foxed. - Lonchamp 2531; Leemann-van Elck, Die zürcherische Buchillustration, p. 89 & 96; Vignau-Wilber, LX. Emblemata Miscella Nova (1982). EMBLEM BOOKS ; HELVETICA ;

Basel, Johannes Oporin, (1550). With text woodcut, and 4 folding tables. (14) leaves, 361 (=367), (1), 3 , (1) leaves, 55 pp., (1) p. (slight marginal soiling on first 3 ff. and light foxing on last 2 ff.). Small 8vo. Modern cloth (blind library stamps on first and last leaves). Basel, Johannes Oporin, (1550). Compact octavo edition of some of Cicero's philosophical works, finely printed throughout in Italics by Johannes Oporin. The first part consists of De Natura Deorum (The Nature of the Gods) and was written in 45 BC. It is laid out in three "books", each of which discuss the theology of different Roman and Greek philosophers, and concentrates on criticisms of Stoic and Epicurean theologies. The second part is the Paradoxa Commentarii. Xystus Betuleius (1501-1554) or Sixt Birck, humanist and later Augsburg rector, was a notable scholar of the New Learning. - VD 16 B 5565; Adams B 847; Index aurel. 119.671. CLASSICS ;