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Iacobi â Bruck Angermunt cogn. Emblemata politica : quibus ea, quae ad principatum spectant breviter demonstrantur singuloru[m] verò explicatio fusius proponitur : opus novum

Bruck, Jacobus à · 1618 · Prostant Argentine : Apud Jacobum ab Heijden ; Et Coloniae : Apud Abrahamum Hogenberg chalcographos · 55 pictures

An emblem book of political maxims for princes and courtiers, written by Jacobus à Bruck (Angermundt) and issued in 1618 by the engraver-publishers Jacob van der Heyden in Strasbourg and Abraham Hogenberg in Cologne. Each emblem is a small copperplate roundel framed by a beaded band, showing crowns, altars, serpent-wound columns, siege camps, falling arrows and domed buildings in open landscape, with fine hatched skies and stippled stone—useful for circular device frames, symbolic objects and compact landscape vignettes.

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