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Discovrs ov traicté des dévises. Ov est mise la raison et différence des emblèmes, énigmes, sentences & autres

Amboise, François d', 1550-1620, Amboise, Adrian d', b. ca. 1598 · 1620 · Paris, R. Bovtonné · 6 pictures

A French treatise on devices, emblems and mottoes by François d'Amboise, completed by his son Adrian and printed in Paris by Rémy Bouttonné in 1620 for heraldic and learned readers. The woodcuts are typographic ornament: inhabited initials with grotesque figures and lions amid foliage, plus narrow headpiece strips of fruiting branches, usable as letterforms, borders and rules.

Devices (Heraldry) · Emblems

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