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A Choice of Emblemes, and other devises : For the moste parte gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised (1586)

Whitney, Geffrey, 1548?-1601? · Imprinted at Leyden : In the house of Christopher Plantyn, by Francis Raphelengius · leaf 36

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