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Ydelheyd des werelds verciert met zinne-beelden, rym-dighten en zede-leeringen

Poirters, Adrien, 1605-1674 · 1720 · T'Antwerpen : By Joannes G. J. de Roveroy · 33 pictures

A Dutch emblem book by the Flemish Jesuit Adriaen Poirters, first written in the 1600s and reprinted at Antwerp by Joannes de Roveroy in 1720, pairing moral verse with pictures for lay devotional readers. Small copperplate emblems show winged putti handling globes, bows, rattles and fire in open landscapes under Latin mottoes, interleaved with woodcut headpieces and tailpieces of fruit baskets, acanthus scrolls and a winged cherub head — usable as vignette spots, chapter ornaments and border units.

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