Minerva Britanna Or A Garden Of Heroical Deuises, furnished, and adorned with Emblemes and Impresa's of sundry natures (1612)
Peacham, Henry, 1576?-1643? · [London, Printed in Shoe-lane at the signe of the Faulcon by Wa: Dight.] · leaf 226
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