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Hochverdientes Ehren-Gedächtnis dem weyland durchlauchtigsten Fürsten und Herrn, Herrn Friederichen dem Andern, Hertzogen zu Sachsen-Gotha [et]c. : aufgerichtet zum Friedenstein von dem durchlauchtigsten Fürsten und Herrn, Hrn. Friederichen dem Dritten, Hertzogen zu Sachsen-Gotha und Altenburg. (Gedruckt durch Johann Andreas Reyhern ..., 1723), by Christian Friedrich Boetius and Martin Bernigeroth (page images at HathiTrust)
Funeralia der weyland durchlauchtigsten Fürstin und Frau, Frau Magdalenen Augusten (Gedruckt bey Johann Andreas Reyhern ..., 1742), by Johann Wilhelm Windter and Johann Christian Schilbach (page images at HathiTrust)
Sechs Bücher vom wahren Christenthum (In der deutsch-europäischen Buch- und Kunsthandlung von Joh. G. Ritter, 1830), by Johann Arndt (page images at HathiTrust)
Rélation de ce qui s'est passé dans la ville d'Avignon a l'arrivée et pendant le séjour du serenisseme infant don Philippe de Bourbon gendre du roy de France au mois de février 1744 : sous le consulat d'illustres et magnifiques seigneurs Messire Jean-François de Suarez ... (Chez François Girard, 1741), by Georget, Jean-Baptiste II. Peru, Jean Michel, and P.-D. Bassinet-Daugard (page images at HathiTrust)
Aqvila Saxonica : svb qva imperatores Saxones ab Henrico Avcvpe, vsquè ad Henricvm Sanctvm Occidentis imperatorem XV. (Apud Io. Iacobum Herz, 1673), by Giovanni Palazzi, Giovanni Giacomo Herz, and Benoît Thiboust (page images at HathiTrust)
Le manuel des artistes et des amateurs, ou, Dictionnaire historique et mythologique des emblêmes, allégories, énigmes, devises, attributs & symboles, relativement au costûme, aux mœurs, aux usages & aux cérémonies : contenant tous les caractères distinctifs & l'explication de chaque sujèt naturel ou moral, sacré ou profane, historique ou fabuleux, dont on peut faire usage dans la poésie, la peinture, la sculpture, l'architecture, le dessin, l'ornement & la décoration, &c. : ouvrage utile aux poëtes, aux artistes & aux amateurs des beaux arts (Chez J.P. Costard ..., 1770), by Jean Raymond de Petity, Jean-Pierre Costard, and Imprimerie de la veuve Simon et fils (page images at HathiTrust)
Der Zielen Weide of Gemoedsverlustiging in de Geestelijke gemeenschap met God...(emblem book) (Amersfoort [Holland], 1805), by Hendrik Derrenton (page images at HathiTrust)
Scherzi poetici e pittorici. (Co' tipi Bodoniani, 1795), by Giovanni Gherardo De Rossi, Giambattista Bodoni, and José Teixeira Barreto (page images at HathiTrust)
Apelles symbolicus : exhibens seriem amplissimam symbolorum, poetisque, oratoribus ac verbi Dei praedicatoribus conceptus subministrans varios (Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1699), by Johannes Michael von der Ketten and Johannes Janssonius van Waesberghe (page images at HathiTrust)
Sacrum Oratorium piarum imaginum Immaculatae Mariae et animae creatae : ac baptismo, poenitentia, et eucharistia innouatae (Ex officina P.B. Moreti, 1634), by Pedro Bivero (page images at HathiTrust)
Fünff geistreiche Bücher vom wahren Christenthum (Verlegts Johann Samuel Heinsius, 1727), by Johann Arndt, Henricus Varenius, Johann Georg Dorsche, and Martin Luther (page images at HathiTrust)
Hieroglyphica, sive, De sacris Aegyptiorum aliarumque gentium literis (sumptibus Christiani Kirchneri, typis Wendelini Moewaldi, 1678), by Pierio Valeriano, Wendelin Möwald, Christian Kirchner, C. Hertzbergk, David Hoeschel, Horapollo, and Celio Augustino Curione (page images at HathiTrust)
Sechs Bücher vom wahren Christenthum (Bey Johann Justinus Gebauer, 1763), by Johann Arndt, Johann David Schleuen, Gottfried August Gründler, and Adam Struensee (page images at HathiTrust)
Parnassvs biceps (Sumptibus Wilhelmi Fitzeri, 1627), by Jean Jacques Boissard, Robert Boissard, William Fitzer, and Johann Theodor de Bry (page images at HathiTrust)
R. P. Joannis Vincartii gallobelgæ insulani e Societate Jesu Sacrarum heroidum epistolæ. (Sumptibus Joannis Friderici Krebsii, bibliopol. academici, 1737), by Jean Vincart, Heinrich Hugo Coentgen, and 18th cent Oster (page images at HathiTrust)
R. P. Joannis Vincartij gallobelgæ insulani e Societate Jesu Sacrarum heroidum epistolaæ. (Sumptibus Joannis Jacobi Remy, bibilopolae, typis Mariæ Magdalenæ Riedlin viduæ, 1723), by Jean Vincart and Peeter Rucholle (page images at HathiTrust)
P. P. Ioan Vincartii gallobelgæ insulani e Societate Iesv Sacrarvm heroidvm epistolæ. (Ex officina Henrici Hoyovx, 1673), by Jean Vincart and G. Hustin (page images at HathiTrust)
Sechs Bücher vom wahren Christenthum (Zu finden in der Kurtz'schen Buchdruckerei, 1830), by Johann Arndt (page images at HathiTrust)
Fünff Bücher vom wahren Christenthum (Gedruckt und verlegt durch Johann Stern, 1685), by Johann Arndt, Henricus Varenius, and Johann Georg Dorsche (page images at HathiTrust)
Florilegium rerum et materiarum selectarum (Excudebat Josias Staedel ..., 1674), by Joseph Lang, Josias Städel, Johann Jakob Walther, and Peter Aubry (page images at HathiTrust)
Staats- und Sitten-Lehren (Franckfurth : Verlegts Martin Hermssdorff, 1684., 1684), by Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro, Johannes Haass, and Martin Hermssdorff (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Emblems (Allegorical pictures) -- England -- 18th century

Compendious emblematist, or, Writing and drawing made easy (Printed for and sold by T. Bellamy ..., 1750), by William Chinnery, Thomas Bellamy, William Tringham, James Hulett, and Thomas Hutchinson (page images at HathiTrust)
Choice emblems : natural, historical, fabulous, moral and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : with pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : the whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress : written for the amusement of the right honorable Lord Newbattle. (Printed for George Riley, in Curzon Street, May Fair, 1772), by John Huddlestone Wynne, George Riley, fl. 1772 Ovenden, and Samuel Wale (page images at HathiTrust)
7 tabulae Raphaelis Urbin (1722), by Elisha Kirkall, Carlo Maratti, and Raphael (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Emblems (allegorical pictures) -- England -- 17th century

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)
Emblemes illustrated by Geo. Wither (Printed by A[ugustine]. M[athewes]. for Richard Royston ..., 1635), by George Wither, Crispijn van de Passe, and William Marshall (page images at HathiTrust)
Lychnocavsia, sive, Moralia facvm emblemata (Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Michael Sparke Iunior ..., 1638), by Robert Farlie (page images at HathiTrust)
Pia desideria, viz. 1. Gemitus animae poenitentis, 2. Vota animae sanctae, 3. Suspiria animae amantis. (Excudit J[ames] C[ottrell] sumptibus Roberti Pawlet ..., 1677), by Herman Hugo and Boëce van Bolswert (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Emblems (allegorical pictures) -- 17th century

Noticias fvnebres de las magestvosas exeqvias que hizo la felicissima ciudad de Palermo, cabeça coronada de Sicilia en la mverte de Maria Lvysa de Borbon (Por Thomas Romolo, Impressor de S. Officio, 1689), by Francisco Antonio de Montalvo and Antonio Grano (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Emblems (allegorical pictures) -- Austria -- 17th century

Josephi felicissimi quondam, et gloriossisimi in Aegypto proregis polymita : variis liciorum coloribus distincta diversisque picturarum figuris illustrata : hoc est, virtutum regiarum in pluribus olim clarissimisque principibus laudatarum symmetria in unum, absolutumque ornatum animi coronis nati concinnata, et Josepho primo Leopoldi I. caesaris filio in Romanorum regem felicibus auspiciis nuper inaugurato : ab Archiducali, Caesareo, et Academico Societ. Jesu collegio Graecii in obsequiosae gratulationis argumentum demississimè oblata. (Apud haeredes Widmanstadii, 1690), by Albert Mechtl, Andreas Trost, Offizin Widmanstetter, and Collegium Societatis Jesu Graecense (page images at HathiTrust)
Genealogia serenissimae domvs Austriacae (Typis Ferdinandi Widmanstadii, 1666), by Ferdinand Widmanstetter, Albinus Patho, Philipp Kilian, and Collegium Archiducale Societatis Jesu Graecense (page images at HathiTrust)
Gratulatio panegyrica quam eminentissimo celsissimo ac reverendissimo domino, domino Guidobaldo ex comitatibus de Thun, S.R.E. cardinali, archiepiscopo Salisburgensi ... ad singulas dignitates meritissimo acceptas ex humillimo obsequio pro novis anni M.DC.LXVIII auspiciis, primis itidem calendis dixerunt musae Salisburgenses. (Ex typographeo Joannis Baptistae Mayr ..., 1668), by Paris Gille, Johann Baptist Mayr, Bartholomäus Kilian, Georg Andreas Wolfgang, Burkhard Schramann, and Benedictines (page images at HathiTrust)
Votum unanime Parnassi Salisburgensis deorum judicio et assensu approbatum, dum in celsiss.mum ac rever.mum S.R.I. Principem, Archiepiscopum Salisburgensem &c. &c. electus esset Joannes Ernestus è S.R.I. comitibus de Thun, Episcopus Seccoviensis (Typis Joannis Baptistae Mayr, typographi aulico-academici, 1687), by Johann Baptist Mayr (page images at HathiTrust)

Filed under: Emblems (allegorical pictures) -- Belgium -- 17th century

Pia desideria : lib. iii. ad Vrbanum VIII (Apud Henricum Aertssens, 1632), by Herman Hugo, Hendrik Aertssens, and Boëce van Bolswert (page images at HathiTrust)
Masker van de wereldt (By de weduwe ende erfgenaemen Ian Cnobbaerts, 1646), by Adrien Poirters, Frederik Bouttats, Johannes Thomas, Antony van der Does, and Vidua et haeredes Ioannes Cnobbarus (page images at HathiTrust)
De on-ghemaskerde liefde des Hemels : tot weder-liefde door verscheyden beweegh-redenen, aen-spraecken ende betrachtinghen : verciert met schoone sinne-belden (Bÿ de weduwe van Ioris Willemsens, 1686), by Joannes à Castro, Weduwe van Joris Willemsens, Godfried Maes, and Gaspard Bouttats (page images at HathiTrust)
Goddelycke wenschen : verlicht met sinne-beelden, ghedichten en vierighe uyt-spraecken der oud-vaeders (By Hendrick Aertssens ..., 1629), by Herman Hugo, Boëce van Bolswert, and Justus de Harduijn (page images at HathiTrust)
Pia desideria, authore Hermanno Hugone è Societate Iesu (Apud Ioannem Henault ..., 1670), by Herman Hugo and Boëce van Bolswert (page images at HathiTrust)
Veridicus Christianus (Ex officina Plantiniana, apvd Ioannem Moretvm, 1601), by Jan David and Théodore Galle (page images at HathiTrust)
Emblemes de l'amovr hvmain (Chez François Foppens ..., 1667), by Otto van Veen, François Foppens, and Cornelius Bol (page images at HathiTrust)
Mvndi lapis lydivs, sive, Emblemata moralia nobilissimi viri D. Antonii A. Bvrgvndia (Ex aenea typographia Ioannis Galle, 1665), by Antoine de Bourgogne, Theodor van Merlen, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Andreas Pauli, and Aurelius Augustinus Clemens (page images at HathiTrust)
Specvlvm peccatorvm aspirantivm ad solidam vitae emendationem (Apud Henricum Aertssens, 1637), by Jan Mantels, Erasmus Quellinus, and Pieter de Jode (page images at HathiTrust)
Mvndi lapis lydivs, sive, Vanitas per veritatem falsi accusata & conuicta (Typis viduae Ioan. Cnobbari, 1639), by Antoine de Bourgogne, Theodor van Merlen, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, and Andries Pauli (page images at HathiTrust)
Les pieux sentimens d'une ame chrestienne : exposez sous des emblesmes familiers, tirez de l'Ecriture Sainte : divisez en trois parties : la premiere traite des larmes & soûpirs de la penitence, la seconde, des desirs de l'ame juste, la troisième, des soûpirs d'une ame convertie en Dieu : traduction nouvelle, avec des figures. (Chez Pierre de Bats ..., 1692), by Herman Hugo, Boëce van Bolswert, and 17th cent Monbard (page images at HathiTrust)
Ydelheydt door de waerheyd beschuldight ende overtuyght van valscheydt (Gedruckt bij de weduwe ende erfgenamē van Ian Cnobbaert, 1643), by Antoine de Bourgogne, Andries Pauli, Arnold Loemans, Theodor van Merlen, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Petrus Gheshier, and Vidua et haeredes Ioannes Cnobbarus (page images at HathiTrust)
Imago primi saecvli Societatis Iesv (Ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, 1640), by Cornelis Galle, Philip Fruytiers, Jacques van de Walle, Sidronius de Hossche, Jean de Tollenaere, and Johannes Bolland (page images at HathiTrust)
Lvx evangelica sub velum sacrorvm emblematvm recondita in anni dominicas (Apud viduam et haeredes Ioannis Cnobbari, 1651), by Henricus Engelgrave, Hendrik Snyers, and Vidua et haeredes Ioannes Cnobbarus (page images at HathiTrust)
Lux euangelica in omnes anni dominicas, pars I (Apud viduam & haeredes Ioannis Cnobbari, 1654), by Henricus Engelgrave, Johannes Thomas, Arnold Loemans, Hendrik Snyers, and Vidua et haeredes Ioannes Cnobbarus (page images at HathiTrust)
Typvs mvndi, in quo eius calamitates et pericvla nec non diuini, humanique amoris antipathia (Apud Ioan. Cnobbaert, 1627), by Philippe de Mallery and Belgium) Collegium Societatis Jesu (Antwerp (page images at HathiTrust)
Heyligh hof vanden keyser Theodosius : verciert met sinnebeelden, rymdichten, en sedeleeringen (Door Joannes Baptista Moermans ... ;, 1696), by Adrien Poirters, Hendrik Thieullier, Joannes Baptista Moermans, Jan Sebastiaen Loybos, and Hendrik Causé (page images at HathiTrust)
Pia desideria tribus tomis comprehensa. I. Gemitus animae poenitentis. II. Vita animae sanctae. III. Suspiria animae amantis. (Ex officina Metternichiana, 1770), by Herman Hugo and Boëce van Bolswert (page images at HathiTrust)

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