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The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus (1648)

Estienne, Henry, sieur des Fossez, Blount, Thomas, 1618-1679, Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, Royston, Richard, 1599-1686, bookseller · London : Printed for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at the Angell in Ivie Lane · leaf 28

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Devices (Heraldry) · Emblems · Emblem books, English

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