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• Our Hypocritical New National Motto "In God We Trust": A Study of the Congressional Substitution for "E Pluribus Unum" and its Theological Implications (New York: Exposition Press, 1963), by Abbott Boone (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Book of Sundial Mottoes (1903), ed. by Alfred H. Hyatt, contrib. by Alice Meynell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Nachlese zu den Devisen für Deutschlands Gelehrte, Künstler etc. (in German; 1773), by Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Century of Emblems (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878), by George Spencer Cautley (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Emblems, Divine and Moral, Together With Hieroglyphicks of the Life of Man, by Francis Quarles (page images at Penn State)
• Emblems of Love, in Four Languages, Dedicated to the Ladys (1680s), by Philip Ayres (page images at Penn State)
• Nuttelyck Huys-Boeck (second edition, in Dutch; Leiden: H. van der Deyster, 1769), by Jacob Cats
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Pia Desideria, or, Divine Addresses, In Three Books (second edition; London: Printed by J. L. for H. Bonwicke, 1690), by Herman Hugo, trans. by Edmund Arwaker (page images at Penn State)

• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• Emblemata Hispanica: An Annotated Bibliography of Spanish Emblem Literature to the Year 1700 (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1990), by Pedro F. Campa (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises (London: F. Raphelengius, 1586), by Geffrey Whitney (page images at Penn State)
• Atalanta Fugiens, hoc est Emblemata Nova de Secretis Naturae Chymica (in Latin; Oppenheim, Germany: Ex Typ. H. Galleri, sumptibus J. Theodori de Bry, 1618), by Michael Maier
  • colored page images at Gallica
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Heroicall Devises of M. Claudius Paradin, Whereunto are Added the Lord Gabriel Symeons and Others (London: W. Kearney, 1591), by Claude Paradin (page images at Penn State)
• The Book of Emblems (in Latin and English), by Andrea Alciati (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
• Choice of Emblemes (without introductory materials or sidenotes), by Geffrey Whitney (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
• Mundorum Explicatio: or, The Explanation of an Hieroglyphical Figure Wherein are Couched the Mysteries of the External, Internal, and Eternal Worlds, Shewing the True Progress of a Soul from the Court of Babylon to the City of Jerusalem, from the Adamical Fallen State to the Regenerate and Angelical (attributed by some to both Samuel and John Pordage; London: Printed by T. R. for L. Lloyd, 1661), contrib. by Samuel Pordage and John Pordage (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Via Vitae Aeternae (2 volumes in Latin; Antwerp: M. Nutij, 1620), by Antoine Sucquet, illust. by Boëce van Bolswert
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathTrust
• Atalanta Fugiens (English translation from MS Sloane 3645 in the British library), by Michael Maier
  • HTML with commentary at alchemywebsite.com
  • HTML with commentary at levity.com

• A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, Quickened With Metricall Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine (London: Printed by A. M. for H. Taunton, 1635), by George Wither (page images at Penn State)

• The Mirrour of Maiestie, or The Badges of Honour Conceitedly Emblazoned (1870; includes facsimile of 1618 publication), by Henry Goodyere, ed. by Henry Green and James Croston (page images at Penn State)

• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• Choice of Emblemes (without introductory materials or sidenotes), by Geffrey Whitney (illustrated HTML with commentary at mun.ca)
• A Choice of Emblemes, and Other Devises (London: F. Raphelengius, 1586), by Geffrey Whitney (page images at Penn State)

• The Mirrour of Maiestie, or The Badges of Honour Conceitedly Emblazoned (1870; includes facsimile of 1618 publication), by Henry Goodyere, ed. by Henry Green and James Croston (page images at Penn State)

• A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The School of the Heart, or, The Heart of It Self Gone Away From God, Brought Back Again to Him, and Instructed by Him, in 47 Emblems (third edition; London: Printed for Lodowick Lloyd, 1676), by Christopher Harvey (page images at Penn State)

• Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers: An Exposition of Their Similarities of Thought and Expression; Preceded by a View of Emblem-Literature Down to A. D. 1616 (London: Trübner and Co., 1870), by Henry Green (page images at HathiTrust)

• La Bandera y el Escudo Nacionales: Articulo Historico (in Spanish; Lima: Imp. Liberal, 1907), by Carlos Paz Soldán
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Les Emblèmes des Beys de Tunis: Étude sur les Signes de l'Autonomie Husseinite (in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1913), by Henri Hugon, contrib. by G. Alapetite (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Papers Relative to the Regalia of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1829), by William Bell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art of Worldly Wisdom, by Baltasar Gracián y Morales, trans. by Joseph Jacobs (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Reflections: or, Sentences and Moral Maxims (London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1871), by François La Rochefoucauld, trans. by J. W. Willis Bund and J. Hain Friswell (Gutenberg text)
• Sparks From the Philosopher's Stone (London: D. Bogue, 1882), by James Lendall Basford
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Economy of Human Life (this edition attributed to Dodsley, with illustrations "by F. Howard, Harvey, Williams, etc."; London: John van Voorst, 1834), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by F. Howard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, in Two Books (this edition attributed to Dodsley; London: Printed for Shirley, Neely, and Jones, et al., 1809), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Frederick Mackenzie, William Marshall Craig, and Thomas Uwins (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life: Translated From an Indian Manuscript, Written by An Ancient Bramin (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; London: Printed for T. Tegg, 1811), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Economy of Human Life, Translated from an Indian Manuscript, Written by an Ancient Bramin; To Which is Prefixed an Account of the Manner in Which the Said Manuscript Was Discovered (work attributed variously to Dodsley and Chesterfield; Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, 1807), contrib. by Robert Dodsley and Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, illust. by Alexander Anderson (page images at Google)
• The Wisdom of Life, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (multiple editions)
• The Wanderer (1932), by Kahlil Gibran (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sayings of the Wise, or, Food for Thought: A Book of Moral Wisdom, Gathered From the Ancient Philosophers (London: E. Stock, 1908), by William Baldwin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Treatise of Morall Phylosophie, Contayning the Sayings of the Wyse (London: E. Whitchurche, 1547)
  • negative page images at HathiTrust
  • HTML at EEBO TCP

• Aphorisms on Man (second edition; London: Printed by T. Bensley for J. Johnson, 1789), by Johann Caspar Lavater, ed. by Henry Fuseli (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States of America and of the Several States of the American Union (6th edition, 2 volumes; Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856), by John Bouvier
  • Volume I (A-K): multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II (L-Y and index): multiple formats at Google

• Franklin's Way to Wealth: or, "Poor Richard Improved" (London: W. and T. Darton, 1810), by Benjamin Franklin (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Way to Wealth (Nottingham: Printed by C. Sutton, ca. 1800), by Benjamin Franklin (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Counsels and Maxims, by Arthur Schopenhauer, ed. by T. Bailey Saunders (Gutenberg text)

• Vox Populi: Essays in the History of an Idea (originally published 1969; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by George Boas (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)
• Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs, Wise Sentences, and Witty Sayings, Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British (new edition, with Ramsay's collection of Scottish proverbs added; London: T. and J. Allman, 1819), ed. by Thomas Fuller, contrib. by Allan Ramsay (page images at HathiTrust)
• Proverbial Lore in Nebraska (1933), by Emma Louise Snapp (PDF at unl.edu)
• Signs, Omens, and Portents in Nebraska Folklore (1933), by Margaret Cannell (PDF at unl.edu)
• A Dictionary of International Slurs (Ethnophaulisms); With a Supplementary Essay on Aspects of Ethnic Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, c1944), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)
• One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed (deluxe edition, 1907), by C. A. Bogardus (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

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