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Govierno general, moral, y politico. Hallado en las aves mas generosas, y nobles. Sacado de sus naturales virtudes, y propriedades. Añadido en esta vltima impression en diferentes partes: y el libro diez y nueve de las aves monstruosas

Ferrer de Valdecebro, Andrés, 1620-1680 · 1696 · Barcelona, T. Loriente impressor · 36 pictures

A Spanish emblem book by the Dominican Andrés Ferrer de Valdecebro, printed in Barcelona in 1696, drawing moral and political lessons from the natures of birds and beasts for a devout reading public. The woodcuts are small, coarsely cut blocks showing single animals in profile on a hatched mound — wolves, dogs, hyenas — plus figures in landscape, useful as bestiary silhouettes and rough line-texture.

Emblems

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