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• Symbolism in art -- Early works to 1800
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• Antigraphevs, siue, Conscientia hominis (Apud Jodocum Kalcovium et Socios, 1655), by Jeremias Drexel (page images at HathiTrust)
• De marmoreo sepulcrali cinerario Perusiae effosso arcanis ethnicorum sculpturis insignito in quibus symbolice sacra quaedam revelatae religionis mysteria adumbrantur et Clementi XIV P.O.M. ac sapientissimo ad incrementum musei pontificii Vaticani ab Emerico Bologninio Perusiae et Umbriae praeside humillime oblato coniecturae Iohannis Baptistae Passerii Pisaurensis regiae academiae Londinensis et instituti Bononiensis socii. (Romae : Excudebat Benedictus Francesius, MDCCLXXIII [1773], 1773), by Giovanni Battista Passeri, Benedetto Francesi, and Emerico Bolognini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle allusioni, imprese, et emblemi del Sig. Principio Fabricii da Teramo (Appresso Bartolomeo Grassi, 1588), by Principio Fabricii and Natale Bonifacio (page images at HathiTrust)
• La profezia dei sommi pontefici romani : con illustrazioni e note. ([s.n.], 1794), by Saint Malachy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera, in tres tomos distributa (Sumptibus Caroli Giannini, librorum Summi Pontificis provisoris in Platea Capranicensi, 1747), by Giovanni Giusto Ciampini, Carlo Giannini, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Francesco Polanzani, Giovanni Battista Lenardi, and Arnold van Westerhout (page images at HathiTrust)
• De laudibus sancte Crucis (in aedibus Thome Anshelmi, 1503), by Archbishop of Mainz Rabanus Maurus, Thomas Anshelm, and Jakob Wimpheling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblèmes chrestienes et morales (By Pieter van Waesberge, 1625), by Zacharias Heyns and Jan Gerrits Swelinck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbolum apostolorum in duodecim distinctum articulos juxta assignationem S. Augustini (Klauber, in the 1750s), by Joseph Sebastian Klauber and Johann Baptist Klauber (page images at HathiTrust)
• De sacris aedificiis a Constantino Magno constructis : synopsis historica (Apud Joannem Jacobum Komarek, Bohemum typographum ..., 1693), by Giovanni Giusto Ciampini, Giovanni Battista Lenardi, and Arnold van Westerhout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devises chretiennes. (Chez Mathieu Chavance, libraire, ruë Merciere, 1717) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rationale divinorvm officiorvm (Apud haeredes Gulielmi Rouillii, sumptibus Petri Rousselet, 1612), by Guillaume Durand and Jean Beleth (page images at HathiTrust)
• De l'allégorie, ou, Traités sur cette matière (Chez H. J. Jansen ..., 1799), by Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Hendrik Jansen, Carl Ludwig Junker, Johann Georg Sulzer, Edward Gibbon, and Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• La théologie des peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et dessinateurs, où l'on explique les principes & les véritables regles, pour représenter les mysteres de Notre Seigneur, ceux de la Ste Vierge, les saints en particulier, les différents traits de leur vie, & les autres sujets de dévotion : avec l'indication des meilleurs tableaux, & des morceaux de sculpture les plus estimés en ce genre, qu'on voit dans les eglises de Paris, & dans les cabinets des particuliers (Chez H.C. de Hansy, le jeune ..., 1765), by Joseph Méry de la Canorgue and Honoré-Clément Dehansy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Breve historia dell'inventione della S. Croce et de i Sacri Chiodi (Nella Stampa archiepiscopale, 1603), by Giovanni Francesco Besozzo (page images at HathiTrust)
• The embassadour of peace, being a strange and wonderful relation of a white dove seated on a rain-bow. That appears to several persons, in the parish of Peter's Carlile; particularly to Mrs. Isabel Fletcher, (wife to Mr. Fletcher, apothecary.) To whom it relates strange and wonderful things, concerning the state of affairs in this nation; very positively asserting universal peace and plenty to all Christendom, the ensuing year 1697. Proving the subversion of the French king, from several texts of scripture; especially from the last verse of the 31st psalm. To which is added, its disputes with several ministers; as also its pious prayers and exhortations to all the people that dayly far and near flock to see it. The truth of all which, is confirm'd by the testimony of two letters, the one sent to the Reverend Dr. Simpson, and the other writ by the worshipful Justice Patrickson. ([Edinburgh, : Re-printed by the heirs and successors of Andrew Anderson ..., 1696]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A survey of the cathedrals of York, Durham, Carlisle, Chester, Man, Litchfield, Hereford, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Lincoln, Ely, Oxford, Peterborough, Canterbury, Rochester, London, Winchester, Chichester, Norwich, Salisbury, Wells, Exeter, St. Davids, Landaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph : containing an history of their foundations, builders, antient monuments, and inscriptions, endowments, alienations, sales of lands, patronages ... : with an exact account of all the churches and chapels in each diocese, distinguished under their proper archdeaconries and deanries, to what saints dedicated, who patrons of them, and to what religious houses appropriated : the whole extracted from numerous collections out of the registers of every particular see ... : and illustrated with thirty-two curious draughts ... : in three volumes (Printed for T. Osborne ... ;, 1742), by Browne Willis, M. Burghers, John Harris, Thomas Bacon, and Thomas Osborne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Opera, in tres tomos distributa (Sumptibus Caroli Giannini, librorum Summi Pontificis provisoris in Platea Capranicensi, 1747), by Giovanni Giusto Ciampini, Carlo Giannini, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Francesco Polanzani, Giovanni Battista Lenardi, and Arnold van Westerhout (page images at HathiTrust)
• Escuela de arquitectura civil : en que se contienen los ordenes de arquitectura, la distribución de los planos de templos y casas, y el conocimiento de los materiales (En la oficina de Joseph de Orga :, 1804), by Athanasio Genaro Brizguz y Bru (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qvinto libro d'architettvra di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese (De l'Imprimerie de Michel de Vascosan, 1547), by Sebastiano Serlio, Ian Martin, and Michel de Vascosan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il primo [-quinto] libro d'architettura di M. Sebastiano Serlio, Bolognese (Per Cornelio de Nicolini da Sabbio a instantia de Marchio Sessa, 1551), by Sebastiano Serlio, Melchiorre Sessa, Pietro Nicolini da Sabbio, and Cornelio Nicolini da Sabbio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro primo-qvinto libro d'architettvra (Appresso Gio. Battista et Marchio Sessa fratelli, 1559), by Sebastiano Serlio, Francesco Rampazetto, Melchiorre Sessa, and Giovanni Battista Sessa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva (Presso gli heredi di Francesco de' Franceschi, 1600), by Sebastiano Serlio and Giovanni Domenico Scamozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The first [-fift] booke of architecture (Printed [by Simon Stafford] for Robert Peake, 1611), by Sebastiano Serlio, Robert Peake, Simon Stafford, and English Printing Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Von der Architectur fünff Bücher (In Verlegung Ludwig Königs, 1608), by Sebastiano Serlio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het eerste [-vijfde] boeck van de architecturen Sebastiani Serlij... (By Hendrick Laurensz ..., 1616), by Sebastiano Serlio and Pieter Coecke van Aelst (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiua di Sebastiano Serlio bolognese : dove si mettono in disegno tvtte le maniere di edificij, e si trattano di quelle cose, che sono più necessarie à sapere gli architteti : con la aggivntta delle inventioni di cinqvanta porte, e gran numero di palazzi publici, e priuati nella città, & in villa, e varij accidenti, che possono occorrere nel fabricare : diviso in sette libri (Appresso Giacomo de' Franceschi, 1619), by Sebastiano Serlio and Giovanni Domenico Scamozzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sebastiani Serlii Bononiensis De architectura libri sex (Per Combi, & La Nou, 1663), by Sebastiano Serlio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise of temples. (London : Printed by R. Bishop, for Thomas Alchorn, at the Green Dragon in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1638), by R. T. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Leo Allatius, De templis Graecorum recentioribus (Apud Iodocum Kalcovium & socios., 1645), by Leone Allacci and Barthold Nihus (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reasons humbly offer'd to the Honourable House of Commons, for continuing the duty or some part thereof, formerly granted for rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral and other churches in London, for some time longer. ([London : s.n., 1695]) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• By the King. A proclamation for preuenting the decayes of churches and chappels for the time to come. (Imprinted at London : by Bonham Norton and Iohn Bill, printers to the Kings most excellent Maiestie, M. DC. XXIX. [1629]), by England and Wales. Sovereign (1625-1649 : Charles I) and King Charles I of England (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Dispareri in materia d'architettura, et perspettiva (Per Francesco, & Pie. Marchetti fratelli, 1572), by Martino Bassi, Giovanni Battista Bertano, Vignola, Andrea Palladio, Giorgio Vasari, and Alfonso N. (page images at HathiTrust)

• L'architecture françoise, ou Recueil des plans, élévations, coupes et profils des églises, palais, hôtels & maisons particulières de Paris, & des chasteaux & maisons de campagne ou de plaisance des environs, & de plusiers autres endroits de France, bastis nouvellement par les plus habils architectes,. et levés et mesurés exactement sur les lieux. (Chez Jean Mariette, 1727), by Jean Marot and Daniel Marot (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dvomo di Milano (Nella stanpe [sic] dell'Agnelli, 1651), by Carlo Buzzi and Federico Agnelli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Description des curiosités des eglises de Paris et des environs ... : le tout par ordre alphabétique, pour une plus grande commodité (Chez Cl.P. Gueffier, pere ... et chez P.Fr. Gueffier, fils ..., 1759), by Antoine Martial Le Fèvre, Claude Pierre Gueffier, and Pierre-François Gueffier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Beschreibung des Strassburger künstlichen Münsters und dessen Thurms : worin küzlich das Merkwürdigste davon deutlich erklärt wird : mit beygefügten Kupfern. (Verlegts Franz Anton Häussler, Buchbinder auf dem Kirschenmarkt :, in the 1780s), by Franz Anton Häussler (page images at HathiTrust)

• De sacris aedificiis a Constantino Magno constructis : synopsis historica (Apud Joannem Jacobum Komarek, Bohemum typographum ..., 1693), by Giovanni Giusto Ciampini, Giovanni Battista Lenardi, and Arnold van Westerhout (page images at HathiTrust)

• Antica basilicografia (A spese di Antonio Bulifon ..., 1686), by Pompeo Sarnelli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Antica basilicografia (A spese di Antonio Bulifon ..., 1686), by Pompeo Sarnelli (page images at HathiTrust)

• Tabernacoli diversi nouamente inuentati ([Giovanni Battista Soria], 1628), by Giovanni Battista Montano, Jérôme David, and Gio. Batta. Soria (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dispareri in materia d'architettura e prospettiva (Appresso Giuseppe Galeazzi, regio stampatore, 1771), by Martino Bassi, Giuseppe Galeazzi, Giacomo Mercori, and Francesco Bernardino Ferrari (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dispareri in materia d'architettura, et perspettiva (Per Francesco, & Pie. Marchetti fratelli, 1572), by Martino Bassi, Giovanni Battista Bertano, Vignola, Andrea Palladio, Giorgio Vasari, and Alfonso N. (page images at HathiTrust)

• Voorbeelden van anticque schoorsteenen, cabinetten, geridons, tafels en spiegels : benevens voorgevels van italiaansche kerkgebouwen, enz. (Bij J.B. Elwe, 1786), by Simon Bosboom and Jan Barend Elwe (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plans, elevations, sections and views of the church of Batalha in the Province of Estremadura in Portugal : with the history and description by Luis de Sousa, with remarks : to which is prefixed an introductory discourse on the principles of Gothic architecture (Printed for I & J. Taylor ... , 1795), by Luís de Sousa, Charles Grignion, Wilson Lowry, and James Cavanah Murphy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Nuova descrizione del Vaticano, o sia, della sacrosanta basilica di S. Pietro (Per gli Eredi Barbiellini, 1762), by Giovanni Pietro Chattard, Vincenzo Mazzoni, Girolamo Mainardi, and Eredi Barbiellini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Descriptio Vaticanae basilicae : veteris et nouae (Typis Bernardini Tani, 1646), by Bernardino Tani, Paolo De Angelis, and Petrus Mallius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Architettvra della basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano (In Roma : Nella Stamperia della Reuerenda Camera Apostolica, 1684., 1684), by Martino Ferrabosco, Pope Innocent XI, Giovanni Battista Costaguti, Giovanni Battista Costaguti, and Catholic Church. Camera Apostolica. Stamperia (page images at HathiTrust)

• De equo albo de quo in Apocalypsi, cap. XIX : et dein de verbo & ejus sensu spirituali seu interno, ex Arcanis coelestibus. ([s.n.], 1758), by Emanuel Swedenborg (page images at HathiTrust)

• De arbore scientiae boni et mali. English ([Amsterdam] : Printed [by the Richt Right Press], in the yeare, 1640), by Sebastian Franck (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A nevv vvind-mil, a new. (At Oxford [i. e. London], : Printed by Leonard Lichfield, 1643), by Abednego Canne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The effects and virtues of the crosse or medal of the great patriarch St. Benedict extracted out of the original printed Germany. ([S.l. : s.n.], Printed in the year 1669) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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