Emblemata politica. Quibus ea, quae ad principatum spectant breviter demonstrantur singulor vero explicatio fusius proponitur. Opus novum
Jacobus à Bruck's Emblemata politica, an emblem book on princely rule issued at Strasbourg and Cologne in 1618 for courtiers, statesmen and educated readers of Latin. Its copperplate roundels, engraved in the Hogenberg workshop, set crowns, palisaded camps, gardens, shields and falling arrows in wide landscapes inside beaded borders, supplying circular vignette frames, symbolic props and fine-line skies.























































