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• Devices (Heraldry) -- Italy -- Early works to 1800

• 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)
• Sententiose imprese ; et, Dialogo (Apresso Gvlielmo Roviglio, 1560), by Gabriele Simeoni and Paolo Giovio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imprese illustri di diversi (Appresso Francesco Ziletti, 1586), by Camillo Camilli and Girolamo Porro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose (Appresso Antonio Barre, 1555), by Paolo Giovio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Conte, overo, Delle imprese (Nella Stamparia dello Stigliola, ad instantia di Paolo Venturini, 1594), by Torquato Tasso (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dell'imprese dialogo (Per Filippo Giunti, 1590), by Scipione Ammirato (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medalls, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphres and rebus (Printed by W.E. and J.G. and are to be sold by Humphrey Moseley ..., 1646), by Henry Estienne and Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trois alphabets de chiffres simples, doubles & triples, fleuronnez et au premier trait (Sur le quay des orfevres, au coin de la rue de Harlay, aux armes de Mademoiselle, 1685), by Nicolas Verien, Jean Jouvenet, and Gérard Edelinck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ombre apparenti di Gio. Ferro (Appresso Giacomo Sarzina, 1629), by Giovanni Ferro and Giacomo Sarzina (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dell' imprese scelte (Appresso Gio. Battista Ciotti senese, 1600), by Simon Biralli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rime et imprese del sig. dottore e cavaliere Bernardino Percivallo (Presso Vittorio Baldini ..., 1588), by Bernardino Percivallo (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devises choisies (Par les soins de Daniel de La Feuille, 1712), by Diego de Saavedra Fajardo, Jacob Cats, and Daniel de La Feuille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le imprese illvstri : con espositioni et discorsi (Appresso Francesco Rampazetto, 1566), by Girolamo Ruscelli, Gaspare Oselli, Niccolò Nelli, and Domenico Zenoi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devises heroiques et emblemes (Chez Rolet Boutonné ..., 1621), by Claude Paradin and Bernard Salomon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devises royales (Chez Rolet Boutonné ..., 1621), by Adrian d' Amboise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose (Appresso Guglielmo Roviglio, 1559), by Paolo Giovio and Lodovico Domenichi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragionamento sopra i motti, & disegni d'arme, & d'amore, che communemente chiamano imprese (Appresso Giordano Ziletti ..., 1556), by Paolo Giovio and Girolamo Ruscelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogue des devises d'armes et d'amours du S. Paulo Iovio (Par Gvillavme Roville, 1561), by Paolo Giovio, Gabriele Simeoni, Lodovico Domenichi, and Vasquin Philieul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prima parte dell' imprese di Scipion Bargagli (Apresso Luca Bonetti, 1578), by Scipione Bargagli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil d'emblêmes, devises, medailles, et figures hieroglyphiques, au nombre de plus de douze cent, avec leurs explications : accompagné de plus de deux mille chiffres fleuronnez simples, doubles & triples ... : cet ouvrage qui est enrichy de deux cens cinquante planches en taille-douce, est très-utile aux graveurs, peintres, sculpteurs, orfevres, brodeurs, serruriers & à tous ceux qui travaillent au dessein (Chez Claude Jombert ..., 1724), by Nicolas Verien, Gérard Edelinck, and Jean Jouvenet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imprese di diversi prencipi, dvchi, signori, e d'altri personaggi et hvomini letterati et illvstri (s.n., 1562), by Battista Pittoni and Lodovico Dolce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Insignium, armorum, emblematum, hieroglyphicorum, et symbolorum (Thomas Orwinus: Impensis Thomæ Gubbin, & Thomæ Newman, 1588), by Abraham Fraunce (page images at HathiTrust)
• The art of making devises : treating of hieroglyphicks, symboles, emblemes, aenigma's, sentences, parables, reverses of medals, armes, blazons, cimiers, cyphers and rebus (Printed for Richard Royston, and are to be sold at the Angell in Ivie Lane, 1648), by Henry Estienne, Richard Royston, William Marshall, and Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devises et emblemes, anciennes et modernes : tirées des plus celebres auteurs, avec plusieurs autres nouvellemt, inventées et mises, en latin, en françois, en espagnol, en italien, en anglois, en flamand et en allemand. (Par les soins de Daniel de La Feuille, 1693), by Heinrich Offelen and Daniel de La Feuille (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorie ritratti ed imprese de SSri. Accadem. Gelati di Bologna. (Per li Manolessi, 1672), by Italy) Accademia dei Gelati (Bologna, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, Giuseppe Maria Mitelli, Agostino Carracci, Lorenzo Tinti, Leonardus Henricus van Otteren, Francesco Barberini, Valerio Zani, and Giovan Battista Capponi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragionamento sopra la proprieà delle imprese ([Appresso Girolamo Bartoli, 1574), by Luca Contile (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectorum symbolorvm heroicorvm (Apud Ia. de Zetter, 1619), by Salomon Neugebauer, Jacques de Zetter, and Lucas Jennis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aureolorum emblematum liber singularis (Apud Bern. Iobinum, 1591), by Nikolaus Reusner, Bernhard Jobin, and Tobias Stimmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tesserae gentilitiae, ex legibus fecialium descriptae (Typis haered. Francisci Corbelletti, 1638), by Silvestro Pietrasanta, Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, and Mathieu Greuter (page images at HathiTrust)
• Origine des ornemens des armoiries (Pour Thomas Amaulry ..., 1680), by Claude-François Menestrier and Mathieu Ogier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discorsi sopra l'imprese (Per Alessandro Benacci, 1575), by Giovanni Andrea Palazzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Livre du blazon : contenant vne emple explication des metaux et couleurs avec leurs significations, les huict points de l'ecu des differantes couronnes et tenants &c : pour l'vsage des armoiries. (Chez Vaneck, rue St. Jacques à St. François de Sales, in the 1650s) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Libro de diverse cartelle e scvdi d'armi ([Per] Giouan Domenico Rossi ..., 1650), by Stefano Della Bella (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trattati del cavalier Bartolomeo Sereno : dell'vso della lancia a cauallo : del combattere a piede alla sbarra : et dell'imprese, et inuentioni caualieresche. (Per Gio. Battista Gargano & Lucretio Nucci, 1610), by Bartolomeo Sereno and Cesare Alberini (page images at HathiTrust)

• Marqves d'honnevr de la maison de Tassis (En l'imprimerie Plantinienne de Balthasar Moretus, 1645), by Jules Chifflet, Paulus Pontius, Michel Natalis, Cornelis Galle, Balthasar Moretus, Wenceslaus Hollar, Nikolaus van der Horst, and Plantijnsche Drukkerij (page images at HathiTrust)

• La nouvelle méthode raisonnée du blason : pour l'apprendre d'une manière aisée : réduite en leçons, par demandes, & par réponses (Chez Pierre Bruyset Ponthus ..., 1754), by Claude-François Menestrier and Pierre Bruyset Ponthus (page images at HathiTrust)
• La nouvelle methode raisonnée du blason : pour l'apprendre d'une maniere aisée : reduite en leçons, par demandes, & par réponses (Chez Jaques Lions ..., 1718), by Claude-François Menestrier and Jacques Lions (page images at HathiTrust)
• La nouvelle methode raisonnée du blason : pour l'apprendre d'une maniere aisée : reduite en leçons, par demandes, & par réponses (Chez Jaques Lions ..., 1701), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dévises héroiqves et emblèmes. (R. Bovtonné, 1622), by Claude Paradin and François d' Amboise (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imprese illvstri (Appresso F. da Fráceschi Seseni, 1584), by Girolamo Ruscelli, Vincenzo Ruscelli, Francesco de Franceschi, and Duke University. Library. Gilbert Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le imprese illvstri : con espositioni et discorsi (Appresso Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1572), by Girolamo Ruscelli, Domenico Zenoi, and Francesco Patrizi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbola varia diversorum principum, archiducum, ducum, comitum & marchionum totius Italiae : cum facili isagoge D. Anselmi de Boot. (Apud viduam Joh. Frid. Hagen ..., 1686), by Jacob Typot, Ysbrandus Haring, fl. 1681-1686 Weduwe van Johan Friderich Hagen, Ægidius Sadeler, Joseph Mulder, and Anselmus de Boodt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dialogo della giostra fatta in Trivigi l'anno MDXCVII (Appresso Euangelista Dehuchino, 1598), by Giovanni dalla Torre (page images at HathiTrust)

• Imprese illvstri ([Appresso Francesco Rampazetto], 1566), by Girolamo Ruscelli and Francesco Rampazetto (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Nachlese zu den Devisen für Deutschlands Gelehrte, Künstler etc. (in German; 1773), by Heinrich August Ottokar Reichard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dizionario Storico-Blasonico delle Famiglie Nobili e Notabili Italiane, Estinte e Fiorenti (3 volumes in 1, in Italian; Pisa: Presso la direzione de Giornale araldico, 1886-1890), ed. by Giovanni Battista di Crollalanza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die devisen und motto des späteren mittalalters. Ein beitrag zur spruchpoesie (J. G. Cotta, 1850), by Joseph von Radowitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Decorators' symbols, emblems & devices. (The Trade papers publishing co., ltd.;, 1907), by Guy Cadogan Rothery and E. Fletcher Clayton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les vignettes emblématiques sous la révolution; 250 reproductions d'en-tétes de lettres (Berger-Levrault, 1911), by Auguste Boppe and Raoul Bonnet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seals and other devices in use in the Government Printing Office. ([Washington], 1965), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dictionnaire des figures héraldiques (Société belge de librairie, 1894), by Théodore de Renesse and J. B. Rietstap (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Luca Contile, uomo di lettere e di negozj del secolo XVI; contributo alla storia della vita di corte e dei poligrafi del 500. (Tipografia G. Carnesecchi e figli, 1903), by Abd-el-Kader Salza (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seals and other devices in use in the Government Printing Office. (Washington, 1958), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les armoiries du Canada. (Dép. du secrétaire d'État, 1923), by Canada. Department of the Secretary of State (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mon hikari. (1912), by Genjirō Nakao (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of American trade-marks & devices (A. A. Knopf, 1924), by Joseph Sinel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Historic devices, badges, and war-cries. (S. Low, son & Marston, 1870), by Mrs. Bury Palliser and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The regal armorie of Great Britain, from the time of the ancient Britons to the reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; the institution of chivalry, and the origin of emblematic insignia in ancient nations. (London, H.K. Causton, 1839), by Alexander Brunet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The armorial bearings of the ... incorporated companies of Newcastle upon Tyne ... with notices of the ... miracle plays, anciently performed by the trading societies ... (printed by Edward Walker, 1824), by James Walker and Moses Aaron Richardson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Documentos relativos al uso del escudo de armas del estado Zulia. (Impr. del estado, 1906), by Zulia (Venezuela) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ragionamento di monsignor Paolo Giovio sopra i motti e disegni d'arme et d'amore che comunemente chiamano imprese. (G. Daelli, 1863), by Paolo Giovio and Eugenio Camerini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divise-motti imprese di famiglie e personaggi italiani (Ulrico Hoepli, 1916), by Jacopo Gelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kamon no yurai (Gakkai Shishinsha, 1910), by Tsunenori Namatame (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Les devises des villes de France : leur origine, leur historique, avec les descriptions des armoiries et quelques reproductions (F. Campbell, 1914), by Henri Tausin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Divise-motti e imprese di famiglie e personaggi italiani (U. Hoepli, 1928), by Jacopo Gelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wreath of heraldry, or, A dissertation on symbolic devices : together with the origin of names, Saxon etymologies, etc. (H. George, 1830), by John Thorold (page images at HathiTrust)
• Printers' flowers; whimsicalities from the Windsor press. ([San Francisco, 1933), by Windsor Press and James Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• La galanteria española ; sistema y diccionario manual del lenguage de la galanteria y de sus divisas, cuyos caracteres son las flores, las piedras preciosas, las cintas y colores, los metales y los animales domésticos, acompañado de dos artículos en forma de diccionario, en los que se explican los pabellones y banderas de todas los pueblos del mundo, y las divisas de todas las órdenes militares y las condecoraciones españolas, y de un corto opúsculo sobre el lenguage mimico-simbólico de la buena sociedad en ciertas ocasiones. Obrade instrucción y de recreo dedicado à las bellas españolas. (Est. tip. de Mellado, 1848), by Basilio Sebastian Castellanos de Losada (page images at HathiTrust)
• Emblematical devices with appropriate mottos (Published ... by Saml. Fletcher ... London, 1810), by Samuel Fletcher and A. van Assen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le blason héraldique. Manuel nouveau de l'art héraldique de la science du blason et de la polychromie féodale d'après les règles du moyen age avec 1300 gravures et un armorial. (Librairie de Firmin-Didot, 1892), by P.-B. Gheusi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Alphabet et figures de tous les termes du blason, donnant l'explication et les examples nécessaires pour leur intelligence, avec 515 armoiries gravees des familles nobles dont les noms se trouvent dans le texte explicatif et une notice sur le blason. (Paris, 1893), by L.-A. Duhoux d'Argicourt and L. A. D** d'A*** (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armorial: I. Des archevêques de Narbonne et des evêques, II. De Carcassonne, III. d'Alet, IV. de Mirepoix, V. de Saint-Papoul (Gaillard, 1910), by Henry Mullot and Henry Sivade (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poètes & bibliophiles; les devises des vieux poètes: étude littéraire et bibliographique. (D. Morgand et C. Fatout, 1879), by Gustave Mouravit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire des devises historiques et héraldiques, avec figures et une table alphabétique des noms (J. B. Dumoulin, 1878), by Alphonse Chassant and Henri Tausin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil d'emblêmes, devises, medailles, et figures hieroglyphiques : au nombre de plus de douze cent, avec leurs explications : accompagné de plus de deux mille chiffres fleuronnex simples, doubles & triples : d'une manière nouvelle & fort curieuse pour tous les noms imaginables : avec les tenants, supports, & cimiers servans aux ornemens des armes (J. Jombert, 1696), by Nicolas Verien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raggionamento di mons. Paolo Giovio, vescouo di Nocera con messer Lodouico Domenichi, sopra i motti, & desegni d'arme, & d'amore, che communemente chiamano imprese. Con un Discorso di Girolamo Ruscelli, intorno allo stesso soggetto (Appresso di Giouann' Antonio de gli Antonij, 1559), by Paolo Giovio, Giovanni Antonio de' Antoni, Girolamo Ruscelli, and Lodovico Domenichi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch der theoretischen und praktischen Heraldik, unter steter Bezugnahme auf die übrigen historischen Hilfswissenschaften ... (Heraldisches Institut., 1861), by Otto Titan von Hefner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wapens, vlaggen en zegels van Nederland; geschiedkundige bijdragen omtrent wapens van Nederland en zijne provincien, van het koninklijk huis (N.v. Koffie hag mij., 1930), by T. van der Laars and S. G. van der Laars (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Imprese illustri di diversi (Collegium Graphicum, 1972), by Camillo Camilli and Girolamo Porro (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• De l'art des devises (S. Cramoisy & S. Mabre Cramoisy, 1666), by Pierre Le Moyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devises heroiqves et morales (Avgvstin Covrbé, 1649), by Pierre Le Moyne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Delle imprese trattato (Ex officina Horatij Saluiani :, 1592), by Giulio Cesare Capaccio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devises des princes, cavaliers, dames ... de l'Europe (Chez Robert J.B. de la Caille ..., 1682), by Claude-François Menestrier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Discovrs ov traicté des dévises. Ov est mise la raison et différence des emblèmes, énigmes, sentences & autres. (R. Bovtonné, 1620), by François d' Amboise and Adrian d' Amboise (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dell'imprese (Appresso Francesco de' Franceschi, 1594), by Scipione Bargagli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectorum symbolorvm heroicorvm centvria gemina (apud Lucam Iennis, 1619), by Salomon Neugebauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbola heroica (Ex officina C. Plantini, 1583), by Claude Paradin and Gabriele Simeoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Imprese illustri di diuersi, coi discorsi di Camillo Camilli, et con le figure intagliate in rame di Girolamo Porro Padouano ... (Appresso Francesco Ziletti, 1586), by Camillo Camilli, Girolamo Porro, and Duke University. Library. Gilbert Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbola heroica m. Claudii Paradini, Belliiocensis canonici, et d. Gabrielis Symeonis (Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Christophorvm Raphelengivm ..., 1600), by Claude Paradin, Joannes Gubernator, and Gabriele Simeoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose (Appresso Antonio Barre, 1555), by Paolo Giovio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dell' imprese scelte (Appresso Gio. Battista Ciotti senese, 1600), by Simon Biralli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dissertazione sopra un clipeo votivo spettante alla famiglia Ardaburia : trovato l'anno MDCCLXIX, nelle vicinanze d'Orbetello ora esistente nel Museo di S.A.R. Pietro Leopoldo, arciduca d'Austria, e granduca di Toscana (Per Leonardo Venturini, 1771), by Domenico Agostino Bracci and Leonardo Venturini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose (Appresso Guglielmo Roviglio, 1559), by Paolo Giovio and Lodovico Domenichi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera dell' illvstre signor conte Costanzo Landi (Per Giouann'Antonio de gli Antonii, 1560), by Costanzo Landi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hispano-Moresque ware of the XV. century : a contribution to its history and chronology based upon armorial specimens (Art Workers' Quarterly :, 1904), by A. van de Put (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Raggionamento di mons. Paolo Giovio, vescouo di Nocera con messer Lodouico Domenichi, sopra i motti, & desegni d'arme, & d'amore, che communemente chiamano imprese. Con un Discorso di Girolamo Ruscelli, intorno allo stesso soggetto. (Appresso di Giouann' Antonio de gli Antonij, 1559), by Paolo Giovio, Giovanni Antonio de' Antoni, Girolamo Ruscelli, and Lodovico Domenichi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selectorum symbolorvm heroicorvm (Apud Ia. de Zetter, 1619), by Salomon Neugebauer, Jacques de Zetter, and Lucas Jennis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Enciclopedia araldico cavalleresca. Prontuario nobiliare. (Giornale Araldico, 1876), by Goffredo di Crollalanza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divise-motti e imprese di famiglie e personaggi italiani (Ulrico Hoepli, 1906), by Jacopo Gelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• El escudo de Corrientes y comprobaciones históricas sobre el mismo, con motivo de su fijación por Decreto de 31 de agosto de 1921. ("Coni,", 1921), by Manuel Vicente Figuerero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Devices of forty-eight famous persons & vices of two not so famous. (Press of the Indiana Kid, 1958), by G. Harvey Petty and The Private Press of the Indiana Kid (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Album amicorum of Jean le Clercq. (1576), by 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ovid, Jean de Tournes, and Bernard Salomon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il re d'armi di Sebenico con illustrazioni storiche (Venezia : Prem. stabil. tip. di Pietro Naratovich, 1884., 1884), by Federico Antonio Galvani, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wapens vlaggen en zegels van Nederland; geschied-kundige bijdragen omtrent wapens van Nederland en zijne provinciën, van het koninklijk huis, enz. (J. van Campen, 1913), by T. van der Laars (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seals and other devices in use in the Government Printing Office. (U. S. Government Printing Office : for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1965), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de monogrammes, prénoms et devises (J. Lemonnyer, 1884), by Marquis of Boisthierry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Knight's gems; or, Device book. (J. Williams, 1836), by F. Knight (page images at HathiTrust)
• Armorial China; a catalogue of Chinese porcelain with coats of arms in the possession of Frederick Arthur Crisp. (Priv. Print., 1907), by Frederick Arthur Crisp (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Seals and other devices for use in the Government Printing Office. ([Washington], 1950), by United States Government Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art de faire des devises. English ([London] : Printed by W.E. and J.G. and are to be sold by Richard Marriot ..., 1646), by Henry Estienne and Thomas Blount (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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