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Meditationes emblematicæ de restaurata pace Germaniæ. : Sinnebilder von dem widergebrachten teutschen Frieden, kürtzlich erklärt

Vogel, Johann, 1589-1663 · 1649 · [Francofurti : Apud Joh. Dav. Zunnerum] · 26 pictures

Johann Vogel's emblem book on the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, printed at Frankfurt in 1649 with paired Latin and German commentary for educated German readers marking the end of the Thirty Years' War. Thirty small numbered copperplates set a single emblematic object—a snail, a shell on a stone block, a laurel wreath hung from clouds—in an open landscape under heavily hatched cloud banks and ruled sun rays; useful for isolated symbolic motifs, engraved sky textures, and compact square frames.

Peace of Westphalia (1648) · Emblems

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