Devises et emblemes, anciennes et modernes : tirées des plus celebres auteurs, avec plusieurs autres nouvellemt, inventées et mises, en latin, en françois, en espagnol, en italien, en anglois, en flamand et en allemand
A polyglot emblem book compiled by Heinrich Offelen and published in Amsterdam in 1693 by Daniel de La Feuille, gathering devices from earlier authors with mottoes in Latin, French, Spanish, Italian, English, Flemish and German for readers inventing their own imprese. The plates are numbered grids of small copperplate roundels, some framed in strapwork cartouches, showing animals, trees, suns, ships, beehives, hands and cupids in stippled landscapes — usable as ready-made spot motifs, seals and ornament units.
