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<dl><dd>Last leaf blank</dd>
<dd>Signatures: A2-Q3(Q4)</dd>
<dd>Engraved title-vignette</dd>
<dd>Includes 59 full page engravings with text in Latin, Spanish, Dutch, and French prose on opposite pages</dd>
<dd>Latin quotations; verses in Spanish by Alonso de Ledesma, French by Carolus Philippus Hattron and Dutch by Otto van Veen</dd>
<dd>Engravings by Gijsbert van Veen. Cf. LeBlanc, C. Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes. Amsterdam, 1970-71, v. 4, p. 97</dd>
<dd>Library's copy is the first item bound with: Emblemata sive symbola ... / auth. Otte. Vaenio. Brvxellae : Ex officina Hvberti Antonii ..., anno M.DC.XXIIII [1624]</dd>
<dd>Binding: 19th century quarter red morocco, marbled boards, gilt spine title, two labels pasted inside front cover: Ex-libris de Verdon and Theodore Besterman</dd>
<dd>Landwehr, J. Emblem books in the Low Countries 1554-1949</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Emblems; Love in art; Christian art and symbolism</div>
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<dl><dd>Veen, Otto van, 1556-1629</dd>
<dd>Ledesma, Alonso de, fl. 1600</dd>
<dd>Veen, Gijsbert van, 1558-1630</dd>
<dd>Hattron, Carolus Philippus, d. 1632</dd>
<dd>Moretus, Balthasar, 1574-1641</dd></dl></div>
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