Historical Theological Texts

Various theological works from the 17th century, including significant writings by notable authors, featuring ornate typography.

ALVAREZ, Diego (1550-1635). Spanish Dominican and theologian. 'Incarnatione Divini Verbi'. Edition from 1614.

ALVAREZ, Diego (1550-1635). Spanish Dominican and theologian. 'Incarnatione Divini Verbi'. Edition from 1614.

Title page for 'tverlijk Lottoonel van Holland, 1707, Hendrik van Damme (II), 1707 text sheet Title page of the book. Under the title a printer vignette with three roses. Leiden paper letterpress printing device (trade-mark of printer or publisher). title-page. flowers: rose

Epitome Omnium, 1668. Biblioteca de l'Il·lustre Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona.

EL FELICISSIMO VIAJE DEL MUY ALTO... DON PHILIPPE HIJO DEL EMPERADOR DON CARLOS QUINTO A SUS TIERRAS DE LA BAXA ALEMANIA... - 1552. Author: CALVETE DE ESTRELLA JUAN CRISTOBAL. Location: SENADO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

DE OPTIMO IMPERIO SIVE IN LIB IOSUAE COMMENTARIUM - COMENTARIOS DEL MEJOR IMPERIO - IMPRESO EN AMBERES EN 1583. Author: BENITO ARIAS MONTANO (1527-1598). Location: SENADO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

I) Symbolarum et Emblematum ex Aquatilibus et Reptilibus Desumptorum. Centuria Quarta. (1604). Artist: Johann Siebmacher (German, died 1611). Author: Written by Joachim Camerarius the Younger (German, 1534-1598). Dimensions: 7 9/16 x 5 11/16 x 1 3/4 in. (19.2 x 14.5 x 4.5 cm). Printer: Printed by Vögelin. Date: 1590-1605. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Psaltern David; Titelpagina voor: canoe, Antony. The book of Psalms in Hebrew, and Leiden, Jean Maire 1650.Text sheet with floral motifs.

Navragio; Y Peregrinacion De Pedro Gobeo de Vitoria, natural de Sevilla, escrito por el mismo, 1610, Sevilla. Libro octavo. Universidad de Mannheim.

In an oval with two palm branches on the inside the title: Ware images of Peacekeepers in the Netherlands; In Latin, French and Dutch. Under the title A cartouche with the imprint, flanked by festans. At the top of a laurel wreath containing: mat 5 V.

VIDA DE GARCILASO DE LA VEGA.ELOGIOS.ELEGIA A SU MUERTE. Author: MOLQUERA C. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Ancient medical book, knowledge and information page for medicine study research, literacy or biology reference. Latin language, healing treatment guide or manual for healthcare education literature

Title page for: J.P. Schabaelje, the great emblemata Sacra, 1654; Den Grooten Emblemata Sacra, consisting of more than four hundred by Belsche figures, as des old as des Nieuwen Testaments. This title page is part of an album.

Albertvs Dvrervs Nvrembergensis pictor hvivs aetatis celeberrimus, versus e Germanica lingua in Latinam: pictoribus, fabris aerariis ac lignariis, lapicidis, statuariis, and vniuersis demum qui circino, gnomone, libella, aut alioqui certa mensura opera sua examinant. . ., Albertvs Dvrervs Nvrembergensis pictor hvivs aetatis celeberrimus, versus è Germanica lingua in Latinam: pictoribus, fabris aerariis ac lignariis, lapicidis, statuariis, and vniuersis demum qui circino, gnomone, libella, aut alioqui certa mensura opera sua examinant. . ., Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528, 1535

PORTADA-SUMMA NOBILITATIS HISPANICAE-SALAMANCA 1570. Author: ARCE JUAN. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Text sheet with a deer; Title page for: Schoutens, Wouter. East Indian voyagie (...), 1676. Text sheet with a print mark in the form of a deer on a hill with a Latin motto around it. Verso a text by the privileges.

"Mappamondo Istorico". Volume VI. Part II. Life of the Ottoman Emperors. Book Three. Ahmed I (1590-1617), sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1603-1617) and Mustafa I (1600-1639), sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1617-1618, 1622-1623). By Father Antonio Foresti (1625-1692), of the Society of Jesus. Venice and Parma, 1722. Author: Antonio Foresti (1625-1692). Italian Jesuit and historian.

Writer Everhard Meyster monogram with his motto in Latin. On recto and verso text. Leaf from one of the books of Everhard Meyster.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Johannes Picus Mirandulanus. Letterpress epitaph in his Epigrammata, 1494.

The Germans also been celebrated for a number of other historical books of the poet, are described for each Distichis

Fran Fererr, Commentarius Analiticus, 1629. Biblioteca de l'Il·lustre Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona.

Spain (1783). 'Pragmàtica SanciÑn contra los gitanos' ('Sanction against gypsy people'). Printed in Barcelona by Eulalia Piferrer. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Barcelona University Library.

VIDA DE GARCILASO DE LA VEGA.ELOGIOS.- PG 31 -. Author: FERNANDO HERRERA. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

"Mappamondo Istorico". Volume VI. Part II. Life of the Ottoman Emperors. Book Two. Murad III (1546-1595), sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1574-1595) and Mehmed III (1566-1603), sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1595-1603). By Father Antonio Foresti (1625-1692), of the Society of Jesus. Venice and Parma, 1722. Author: Antonio Foresti (1625-1692). Italian Jesuit and historian.

CODICES VAT.3859/5821/ Y 3860 EN LATIN SOBRE AUGUSTO CESAR. Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

ARIOSTO, Ludovico (1474-1533). Italian Renaissance poet. Edition made in Venice (1598). Front page. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia).

Viridarium Artis Notariatus, Sive Tabellionum Viretum, 1704. Biblioteca de l'Il·lustre Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona.

AFORISMOS POLITICOS DE PUBLIO CORNELIO 2/49524. Author: ALAMOS B. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

LIBRE DELS QUATRE SENYALS DEL GENERAL DE CATHALUNYA - 1683. Location: SENADO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

ANALES DE ARAGON DESDE EL AÑO 1525 AL AÑO 1540 - PORTADA DE 1697 -. Author: DIEGO JOSE DORMER (1640-1705). Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien. Dedicatee: Catherine de Bourbon (French, 1558-1604). Designer: Federico de Vinciolo (Italian, active Paris, ca. 1587-99). Dimensions: Overall: 9 7/16 x 6 1/2 in. (24 x 16.5 cm). Publisher: Jean Le Clerc , Paris. Date: 1603.Designed by Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, published by Jean Le Clerc, Paris, dedicated to Catherine de Bourbon, French, 1558-1604.Title page with illustrated border, advice to reader with woodcut initial letter and headpiece, empty wreath (for portrait of Catherine de Bourbon), dedication, sonnet in Catherine's honor, sonnet honoring ladies, privilege, 64 pages of designs, 47 pages of grid patterns, 5 pages of discourse about lacing (all text with woodcut initial letters). Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Consiliorvm sive responsorvm ivris, 1579. Biblioteca de l'Il·lustre Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona.

VIAJE DE LA CATOLICA REAL MAGESTAD DEL REY FELIPE III AL REINO DE PORTUGAL - PORTADA - MADRID - 1622. Author: JOAN BAPTISTA LAVANHA (1555-1624). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

1557 printing of De potestate ecclesiae I and II; 1532 by Francisco de Vitoria (c. 1483 1546). Spanish Renaissance Roman Catholic philosopher; theologian and jurist. founder of the School of Salamanca; noted especially for his contributions to the theory of just war and international law.

"Mappamondo Istorico". Volume VI. Part II. Life of the Ottoman Emperors. Book Five. Ibrahim (1615-1648). Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1640-1648). By Father Antonio Foresti (1625-1692), of the Society of Jesus. Venice and Parma, 1722. Author: Antonio Foresti (1625-1692). Italian Jesuit and historian.

Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa by German master, woodcut, 1533, Russia, Moscow, Russian State Library

ARISTOTLE (384-332 BC). Greek philosopher. 'Physicorum'. frontispiece. Edition made in Lyon (1561). SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona. Biblioteca de Catalunya (National Library of Catalonia).

August, Elector of Saxony.

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Probably German 16th Century, Alphabet for a Primer Alphabet for a Primer

On both word and plenty of work. 2.

Titelpagina Voor: Throne Justice, 1606, 1606 A standing woman with a sword in her left hand and a scale in her right hand. In oval with edge script: Oculi Domini Super Justos (Ps. 34). With an ornamental frame with two putti with palm branches and flower gui country lands. At the top of the initials H.H. Used as a title vignette on the title page of the series entitled: Thronus Justitiae. The magazine is part of an album. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdamprinter: Leiden paper letterpress printing / engraving A standing woman with a sword in her left hand and a scale in her right hand. In oval with edge script: Oculi Domini Super Justos (Ps. 34). With an ornamental frame with two putti with palm branches and flower gui country lands. At the top of the initials H.H. Used as a title vignette on the title page of the series entitled: Thronus Justitiae. The magazine is part of an album. print maker: Netherlandspublisher: Amsterdamprinter: Leiden paper letterpress printing / engra

Text sheet at a representation of the Sibille Agrippina; Sibylla Agrippina / Sibylle Agrippine; Sibilles. A text in Latin and French over a print with a representation of the Sibille Agrippina. This magazine is part of an album.

Ornamenteel cartouche met serietitel ; Prosopographia or virtues , psychological, physical , good foreign vices and varying affections project . The prent maakt deel uit van list .

Preface, 1622 print. text sheet Foreword by W. Baudartius, Polemographia Avraico-Belgica, 1621. With decorated initial. paper letterpress printing writing and letters

Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 66 (recto) 1603 Federico de Vinciolo Italian Designed by Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, published by Jean Le Clerc, Paris, dedicated to Catherine de Bourbon, French, 1558-1604."Discourse about lacing" printed in black with an illustrated woodcut initial "C". Above the text is a frieze that is decorated in the center with a coat of arms and flanked on either side by curving vines of flowers, among which are 2 inscribed scrolls and 2 snails.. Les Secondes Oeuvres, et Subtiles Inventions De Lingerie du Seigneur Federic de Vinciolo Venitien, page 66 (recto) 358421

Title page of the Small Passion series by Albrecht Dürer, printed in 1612, combining woodcut and type print, showing composition, text, and decorative elements.

. Crowned coat of arms of Frederik Willem, count of Limburg and Bronckhorst. Two columns text on either side.

"Mappamondo Istorico". Orderly narration of the four supreme empires of the world, from Nino, first emperor of the Assyrians, to Austrian Leopold and the Monarchy of Christ. Chapter V. Of Princes and Magistrates of the Army. By Father Antonio Foresti (1625-1692), of the Society of Jesus. Volume I. Parma, 1711. Author: Antonio Foresti (1625-1692). Italian Jesuit and historian.

Charter for Johan Coutereels with Death seated on a rearing horse, The skeleton with wings attacks a poet with laurel wreath. A king and a peasant have already been killed. A naked woman holding a mirror lies on the ground. To the left, right and below the scene are Latin verses and the whole is framed rectangularly with fine ornamentation, Charter for Johan Coutereels with Death with scythe as a warrior on horseback attacks poet Ornatissimo Vigilantissimo spectatoque viro domino Johanni Covtereeli (title on object), print maker: Johan Barra, (mentioned on object), publisher: Richardus Schilders, (mentioned on object), Middelburg, 1604, paper, engraving, h 117 mm × w 159 mm, h 355 mm × w 278 mm

PRINCIPE PERFECTO Y MINISTROS AIUSTRADOS- PAGINA 32- DOCUMENTO LV- HAGA OBSERVAR LAS LEYES QUE SON LAS MAS FIRMES MURALLAS DE LOS PUEBLOS- 1657. Author: MENDO ANDRES. Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-BIBLIOTECA. MADRID. SPAIN.

Amsterdam, Goedesberg, Gerrit van, Title page for: Calprenède, La. Cleopatre. Third part, 1667, Text sheet with a floral motif, verso bottom center - stamped, print, title page, text sheet, prints, height 130 mm, width 71 mm, printer, 1667 - 1667, paper, letterpress printing, woodcut, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher

De Coniectu Ultimaru Voluntatum, Francisco Mantica Utinensi, 1580. Biblioteca de l'Il·lustre Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona.

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DE HISTORIA PARA ENTENDERLA Y ESCRIBIRLA A DON FRANCISCO DE SANDOVAL DUQUE DE LERMA - MADRID - 1611. Author: CABRERA DE CORDOBA LUIS. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Vignet met Thomas van Aquino; Titelpagina voor: Gerardus Wijnackers, Melchior Franc. de Sauveur en Anton. van den Steenwegh, Theses theologicae de actibus humanis, 1764.Thomas of aquino in habit, with a star on the chest, writing in a book. A pigeon flies next to him and appeals to him God's Word. Around a frame with angels in the four corners.

Title page for: the steadfast monarchye of death, ca. 1707-1708, 1707 - 1708 Title page for: the steadfast monarchye of death, ca. 1707-1708, a series of 8 old plates with verses adapted for use as cartoons on the French in the context of the Spanish Succession War. Part of the print work published under the collection title 't Lust-Hof of Momus with the bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the Spanish War of Succession. Amsterdam paper letterpress printing

Title page for: Eduard Meiners, short design of the lere der Waartheit or the Oostvriesche Catechism, 1740, Anonymous, 1740 print paper letterpress printing title-page

CATHOLICAE MAIESTATIS REUM STATUS A CONSILIIS - ROMA, 1563. Author: VARGAS FRANCISCO / VARGAS FRANCISCI. Location: SENADO-BIBLIOTECA-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

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Vignette with thomas of aquino; Title page for: Josephus Stoutemans, Theses Theologicae in Decalogum, 1761. Thomas of Aquino in Habijt, with a star on the chest, writing in a book. A pigeon flies next to him and appeals to him God's Word. Around a frame with angels in the four corners.

Title page for: Dordrechtsche Arcadia, 1701, Jan de Jonge, 1701 text sheet Title page with a bouquet with flowers under the title. Print Maker: Middelburg Publisher: Amsterdam paper letterpress printing flowers

Illustrisimo Viro Ioanni Baptistae Colberto, marquis de Seignelay (1651-1690). "Marca Hispanica sive limes hispanicus". Book written in Latin by Pierre de Marca (1594-1662). In 1656 he was commissioned to formalise the border treaty between the kingdoms of France and Spain, a task that was reflected in this collection of five books, making the French people aware of the annexed province of Catalonia in 1641. Etienne Baluze enlarged and edited it. Published in Paris by Francois Muguet in 1688. Historical Military Library of Barcelona. Catalonia, Spain.

PORTADA DEL METAPHISICA - LOGICA. Author: SERVERA JACOBO. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Description / Fire / Artifice, / Ordered by Gentlemen The Presentation of the Merchant and Echevins of the City of Paris ... (IT)

Matthias I., Roman-German Kaiser.

Voyage fait par ordre du roy Louis XIV dans la Palestine, page 210, 1717, A Paris, Chez André Gailleau. Arabian Peninsula, Description and travel

'Le medecin charitable', by Jacques Constant

CONCILIORUM AMNIUM HISPANIAE ET NOVI ORBIS-PORTADA. Author: JOSE SAENZ DE AGUIRRE (1630-1699). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Iacobi Cuiacii Ic Praestantissimi Operum Postumorum, 1658. Biblioteca de l'Il·lustre Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona.

Coniecturis Ultimarum Vountatum Tractatus, 1591. Biblioteca de l'Il·lustre Col·legi de l'Advocacia de Barcelona.

Constituciones y otros Derechos de Cataluña (Constitutions and other Rights of Catalonia), compiled by virtue of the Court Chapter XXIV, of the Courts chaired by Philip II and which were held in the village of Monzón in 1585. Third volume. Printed in the House of Joan Pau Marti and Joseph Llopis Estampers, 1704. Historical Military Library of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Publius Ovidius Naso (43 B.C.-17/18 A.C.), known as Ovid. Roman poet. The Heroides ("Heroines") or Epistulae Heroidum. Text in Latin. First page. Letter from Penelope to Ulysses. Lyon, 1689.

Titelpagina van Het Boek 'meditations in the Great Hippocratis, Willem Ten Rhijne, 1670 - 1672 paper letterpress printing / pen / etching

Les Singuliers et Nouveaux Portraicts... Part I title page (recto). Binder: Chambolle-Duru (French, 19th century). Designer: Federico de Vinciolo (Italian, active Paris, ca. 1587-99). Dimensions: Overall: 8 1/16 x 6 5/16 in. (20.5 x 16 cm). Publisher: Jean Le Clerc , Paris. Sitter: Frontispiece portrait of Henri III, King of France and Poland (1551-1589); Portrait of Louise de Lorraine-Vaudemont (French, Nomény 1553-1601 Moulins) , Queen of France. Date: 1588.Designed by Federic de Vinciolo, published by Jean Le Clerc, Paris, bound by Chambolle-Duru, French, 19th century.Title printed in black and framed inside of a rectangle at the center of the page. Central rectangle is surrounded by a border decorated with a coat of arms at the top center that is flanked on either side by ornamented pieces of textiles held up by a winged putto. At the bottom of the left and right sides of the border are 2 women who sew textile designs. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Title page of the pamphlet: farmers litanie or the clacht der Kempensche Landt people about the misery of this Lanck Duighthe Nederlantsche Ooologhe, 1608, 1608 Title sheet of the pamphlet: Boeren-litanie or the Kempensche Landt liters about the miseries of this Lanck-Dueritye Nederlantsche Ologhe. Presentation of a woman lying in her childhood bed, 1608. Northern Netherlands paper letterpress printing Title sheet of the pamphlet: Boeren-litanie or the Kempensche Landt liters about the miseries of this Lanck-Dueritye Nederlantsche Ologhe. Presentation of a woman lying in her childhood bed, 1608. Northern Netherlands paper letterpress printing

NOTICIA UNIVERSAL DE CATALUÑA-PORTADA. Author: FRANCISCO MARTI Y VILADAMOR (1616-1687). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPANIEN.

Text sheet at a performance of the Persian Sibille, 1615 text sheet A text in Latin and French about a print with a representation of the Persian Sibille. This magazine is part of an album. paper letterpress printing

Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471). Canon regular, author of The Imitation of Christ. Cover edition of Girona, 1767. Catalonia. Episcopal Library. Barcelona.

Front cover of the book Natural History of the Bible.

Cover of the French edition of Don Quixote in 1614. Portada de la edicion francesa de 1614 del Quijote. Madrid, National Library. Author: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION, MADRID, SPAIN.

ANNALES ARDINIS S BENEDICTI-TOMO I-PORTADA 1703. Author: MABILLON. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

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Cartouche with edge of fish, Albert Flamen, 1664

Hexaglot traveller's dictionary, 1541, (1901). Artist: Melchiorre Sessa

"Mappamondo Istorico". Volume IV. Kingdoms arising from the decline and fall of the Roman Empire in the Western. From 420 AD to 1692 AD. Book Five. The Republic of Genoa (1099-1797). By Father Antonio Foresti (1625-1692), of the Society of Jesus. Parma, 1710. Author: Antonio Foresti (1625-1692). Italian Jesuit and historian.

LITERATURA CATALANA. FARRERA, Jaume. "História del molt alt... lo rey Don Jaume de Arago... lo gran Conquistador". Escrito en Barcelona en el año 1619. PORTADA. Manuscrito nº69. Biblioteca de la Universidad. Barcelona.

LITERATURA CATALANA. SIGLO XVIII. FINESTRES I MONSALVO, Josep (Barcelona, 1688Cervera, 1770). Jurisconsulto y arqueólogo catalán. "COMENTARIOS A LOS LIBROS DE HERMOJINIANO". Portada. Libro IV. Tomo I. Edición en latín impresa en Cervera en el año 1757.

Hieronymus Cock, Dedication Page, published 1551 Dedication Page

Title page for: scenographiae, sive perspectivae, 1563, 1563 Print is part of an album. Antwerp paper letterpress printing Print is part of an album. Antwerp paper letterpress printing

CORREO LITERARIO DE MURCIA-1782. Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Title print of the Batavian wars against the Romans; The Batavian wars against the Romans; Batavorum Cum Romanis Bellum. .

Explication des tableaux de la galerie de Versailles, et de ses deux sallons Author Pierre Rainssant French Subject of book Charles Le Brun French 1687 Includes bookplate of P. Mendle .Description of the Le Brun paintings in the Hall of Mirrors. View more. Explication des tableaux de la galerie de Versailles, et de ses deux sallons. 1687. Versailles, France

The four evangelists write their gospel, Jacob van Beverwijk, 1665 print The four evangelists Johannes, Lukas, Marcus and Matthew sit side by side and write their gospel. Behind them their symbols: eagle, bull, lion and angel. Title page for: G. Diodati, Il Nuovo Testamento del Signor Nostro Jesu Christo, 1665. Haarlem paper letterpress printing the evangelists writing

Nancy, Callot, Jacques, France, Charlot, Anthoine, Life of Mary in emblems, Mariae Dei genitrici et virgini rerum dominae ac reginae, Hymn of praise to Mary, belonging to the emblem series 'Life of Mary in emblems', verso lower left - stamped, A laudatory text, addressed to Mary, written in Latin prose. This sheet (printed on both sides) is part of the first state of the emblem series 'Life of Mary in emblems', which, in addition to a title page and this hymn, contains two more hymns and 26 emblems., text sheet, prints, height 156 mm, width 115 mm, author, 1625 - 1629, second quarter 17th century, paper, letterpress printing, Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, French, 1592-08-21 - 1635-03-24, print maker, printmaker

Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, Book I title page (recto) 1601 Cesare Vecellio Italian Published by Cesare Vecellio, Italian, Pieve di Cadore 1521-1601 Venice, Venice.Title page for Book I. Title is printed in black with illustrated printer's mark underneath. Printer's mark depicts a bird feasting on worms framed inside an oval that has an inscribed rim and is surrounded by a decorative architectural frame with putti and women sewing textile patterns.. Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne: Libro I-IV, Book I title page (recto) 661606

Minerva and Ceres with image of people working on land; Title page for: Thomas Gataker, Marci Antonini Imperatoris de Rebus Suis, Sive de EIS QAE AD SE PERTINERE CENSEBAT, 1697. Printing mark: Ceres shows an image of people working on the land on the seated Minerva with lance, shield and owl. Left and right putti.

Title page of 'Architecture Hydraulique' by Bernard Forest de Belidor (Paris 1737). Belidor (1698-1761) French military and civil engineer, born in Spain.

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