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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)
• Il cannocchiale aristotelico, o sia, Idea dell'arguta et ingeniosa elocutione : che serue à tutta l'arte oratoria, lapidaria, et simbolica / (In Venetia : Presso Paolo Baglioni, 1663), by Emanuele Tesauro, Paolo Baglioni, Carolus Dibhinus, and Giovanni Georgi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera / (In Milano : Per Giouann'Antonio de gli Antonii, 1560), by Costanzo Landi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il cannocchiale aristotelico, o sia, Idea dell'arguta et ingeniosa elocutione : che serue à tutta l'arte oratoria, lapidaria, et simbolica / (In Torino : Per Bartolomeo Zauatta, M.DC.LXX [1670]), by Emanuele Tesauro, Bartolomeo Zavatta, Georges Tasnière, and Domenico Piola (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Rota, overo, Delle imprese dialogo / (In Fiorenza : Per Filippo Giunti, 1598), by Scipione Ammirato (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbola diuina & humana pontificvm, imperatorvm, regvm : accessit breuis & facilis isagoge Iac. Typotii : ex mvsaeo Octavii de Strada civis Romani : tomus primus[-tertius] / (Pragae : [s.n.], 1601-1603), by Jacob Typot, Anselmus de Boodt, and Ægidius Sadeler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogue des devises d'armes et d'amovrs du S. Pavlo Iovio : avec un discours M. Loys Dominique sur le mesme subiet / (A Lyon : Par Gvillavme Roville, 1561), by Paolo Giovio, Gabriele Simeoni, Lodovico Domenichi, and Vasquin Philieul (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ragionamento di mons. Paolo Giovio sopra i motti, & disegni d'arme, & d'amore, che communemente chiamano imprese : con vn discorso di Girolamo Ruscelli, intorno allo stesso soggetto. (In Venetia : Appresso Giordano Ziletti ..., 1556), by Paolo Giovio and Girolamo Ruscelli (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divise-motti e imprese di famiglie e personaggi italiani / (Milano : Ulrico Hoepli, 1906), by Jacopo Gelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Proverbs and family mottoes with the names of the families by whom they are adopted. (London, G. Routledge, 1891), by James Allan Mair (page images at HathiTrust)
• A translation, in verse, of the mottos of the english nobility and sixteen peers of Scotland in the year 1800 / (London : printed for the author by Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1822-25), by Amicus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Divise-motti imprese di famiglie e personaggi italiani / (Milano : Ulrico Hoepli, 1916), by Jacopo Gelli (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• C.F. Menestrerii S.J. Philosophia imaginum, id est, Sylloge symbolorum amplissima : qua plurima regum, principum, nobilium, foeminarum illustrium, eruditorum, aliorumque virorum in Europa praestantium, quae prostant, summa diligentia sunt congesta methodoque succincta exhibita : e lingua Gallica in Latinam translata, figurisque elegantioribus ac antea ornata. (Amstelodami & Gedani [Gdańsk] : Prostant apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1695), by Claude-François Menestrier, Gillis Janssonius van Waesberge, and Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mottoes of Methodism : from the prose writings of Rev. John Wesley and the poetical writings of Rev. Charles Wesley, with Scripture texts for every day in the year / (New York : Philips & Hunt, 1883), by John Wesley, Jesse T. Whitely, and Charles Wesley (page images at HathiTrust)
• I discorsi di M. Gio. Andrea Palazzi sopra l'imprese : recitati nell'Academia d'Vrbino : con la tauola della cose più notabili, che in loro si contengono. (In Bologna : Per Alessandro Benacci, 1575), by Giovanni Andrea Palazzi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nicolai Reusneri Leorini Silesii Symbolorum imperatoriorum : classis prima [-tertia]. Qua symbola continentur impp. ac Caesarum Romanorum Italicorum: à C. Julio Caesare, usque ad Constantinum Magnum. Opus philologicum et politicum, vereque regium ac imperatorium : omnibus omnium ordinum, & cum primis ciuilis sapientiae studiosis lectu futurum vtile, ac iucundum. Additus est cuilibet classi tergeminus elenchus : symbolorum scilicet, imperatorum, tum quoq[ue] rerum, & sententiarum. (Francofurti ad Moenum, : Curante Ioianne Spessio., 1588), by Nikolaus Reusner and Johann Spiess (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 (In Milano : 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 symbolorum heroicorum centuria gemina : enotata atque enodata / (Francofurti : Apud Ia. de Zetter, a[nn]o 1619), by Salomon Neugebauer, Jacques de Zetter, and Lucas Jennis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il cannocchiale Aristotelico, o sia, Idea dell'arguta et ingegniosa elocutione : che serue à tutta l'arte oratoria, lapidaria, et simbolica / (In Venetia : Appresso Benedetto Milocho, MDCLXXXII [1682]), by Emanuele Tesauro and Benedetto Milocco (page images at HathiTrust)
• Il Rota overo dell'imprese : dialogo / (Napoli : [Appresso G.M. Scotto], 1562), by Scipione Ammirato (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. (In Milano : Appresso di Giouann' Antonio de gli Antonij, 1559), by Paolo Giovio, Giovanni Antonio de' Antoni, Girolamo Ruscelli, and Lodovico Domenichi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Symbola diuina & humana pontificum, imperatorum, regum / (Pragae : [s.n.], 1601-1603), by Jacob Typot, Anselmus de Boodt, Octavius Strada, Giles Sadeler, and James Balfour (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di varj motti brighelleschi, arguti, allegorici, e satirici ad uso del teatro / (Torino : Presso i fratelli Reycends libraj : e Ignazio Soffietti stampatore, 1794), by Atanasio Zannoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Raccolta di varj motti arguti, allegorici, e satirici, ad uso del teatro / ([Venice? : s.n., 1787?]), by Atanasio Zannoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dictionnaire des devises ecclésiastiques / (Paris : Emile Lechevalier, 1907), by Henri Tausin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Raccolta di motti brighelleschi arguti, allegorici e satirici di Atanasio Zannoni, comico / (Torino : Reycend e compa., 1807), by Atanasio Zannoni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heraldic illustrations, comprising the armorial bearings of the principal families of the empire; with pedigrees and annotations, (London, E. Churton, 1844-46), by John Burke and Bernard Burke (page images at HathiTrust)
• The motto book : being a collection of epigrams / (East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, 1920), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A book of hospitalities and a record of guests, with a foreword on old house mottoes, (San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, [1910]), by Arthur Guiterman, John Henry Nash, Tomoyé Press. Book producer, and Paul Elder and Company. Book producer (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. (Milano, G. Daelli, 1863), by Paolo Giovio and Eugenio Camerini (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1400 deutsche hausinschriften; eine sammlung schon bestehender und von 135 deutschen schriftstellern eingesandten, für dieses buch eigens neu geschaffenen hausspruchdichtungen ... (Eger, Im selbstverlag, [1918]), by Josef Hofmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A hand-book of mottoes borne by the nobility, gentry, cities, public companies, &c. (London, Bell and Daldy, 1860), by Charles Norton Elvin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The motto book: being a collection of epigrams/ (East Aurora, N.Y. : The Roycrofters, c1914), by Elbert Hubbard, contrib. by Roycroft Shop (page images at HathiTrust)
• A garland of love; a collection of posy-ring mottoes. (London, Arthur L. Humphreys, 1907) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• To reaffirm the reference to one nation under God in the Pledge of Allegiance : report (to accompany S. 2690) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office). ([Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2002]), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The house, the garden, and the steeple; a collection of old mottoes. (London, A. L. Humphreys, 1907), by Arthur Lee Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• American mottoes and slogans, (New York, The H. W. Wilson company, 1941), by George Earlie Shankle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les devises des villes de France : leur origine, leur historique, avec les descriptions des armoiries et quelques reproductions / (Paris : F. Campbell, 1914), by Henri Tausin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• XL muzikale Boekmerken met eene Opgave van meer dan ccc Spreuken, die op dit soort van Boekmerken voorkomen. (Amsterdam, F. Muller, 1897), by J. F. Verster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Garland of love : a collection of posy-ring mottoes. (London : A.L. Humphreys, 1902), by Arthur Lee Humphreys (page images at HathiTrust)
• Irish heraldry. Coats of arms of eleven hundred Irish family names, executed from descriptions contained in O'Hart's Irish pedigrees, Fairbairn's crests, Burke's peerage, Fox-Davies armorial bearings, etc., etc., including crests and mottoes. (New York, Murphy & McCarthy, 1930), by New York Murphy & McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Poètes & bibliophiles; les devises des vieux poètes: étude littéraire et bibliographique. (Paris, D. Morgand et C. Fatout, 1879), by Gustave Mouravit (page images at HathiTrust)
• State names, flags, seals, songs, birds, flowers, and other symbols; a study based on historical documents giving the origin and significance of the state names, nicknames, mottoes, seals, flags, flowers, birds, songs, and descriptive comments on the capitol buildings and on some of the leading state histories, (New York, The H.W. Wilson company, 1941 [c1938]), by George Earlie Shankle (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Book of sundial mottoes / (London : Philip Wellby ; New York : Scott-Thaw, 1903), by Alfred H. Hyatt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A book of inscriptions. (New York, McBride, Nast, 1914), by Esther Matson (page images at HathiTrust)
• House mottoes and inscriptions: old and new, (London, E. Stock, 1902), by S. F. A. Caulfeild (page images at HathiTrust)
• A translation, in verse, of the mottos of the English nobility and sixteen peers of Scotland in the year 1800. (London, Printed [by J. Moyes] for the author, 1822), by Amicus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die wahl- und denkspruche, feldgeschreie, losungen, schlacht-und volksrufe besonders des mittelalters und der neuzeit, gesammelt, alphabetisch geordnet und erläutert von J. Dielitz ... (Frankfurt a/M. : W. Rommel, Vaduz : Kraus Reprint, 1884 ;, 1963), by J. Dielitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lijf- en wapenspreuken van het vorstelijk huis, van den Nederlandschen adel, van beroemde Nederlanders en Buitenlanders enz ... (Utrecht, J.L. Beijers, 1893), by pseud Heraldicus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Wahl- und Denksprüche, Feldgeschreie, Losungen, Schlacht- und Volksrufe, besonders des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, gesammelt, alphabetische geordnet und erläutert. (Frankfurt a. M. : Rommel, 1884. Vaduz, Kraus, 1963), by J. Dielitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Devises : cris de guerre, légendes, dictons / (Dijon : Lamarche, 1890), by Joseph de Champeaux (page images at HathiTrust)
• FERT : origine e significato primitivo di questo motto e sua storia negli stemmi e negli ordini cavallereschi di Casa Savoia., by Tommaso Emanuele Cestari, Antonio Cavagna Sangiuliani di Gualdana, and Cavagna Collection (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Library) IU-R (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die devisen und motto des späteren mittalalters. Ein beitrag zur spruchpoesie, (Stuttgart, Tübingen, J. G. Cotta, 1850), by Joseph von Radowitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• State names, flags, seals, songs, birds, flowers, and other symbols; (New York, The H. W. Wilson company, 1934), by George Earlie Shankle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ich dene: some observations on a manuscript of the life and feats of arms of Edward, prince of Wales, the Black prince: (London, Printed by G. W. Jones, [1921]), by Israel Gollancz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Posies ... (Langensalza, J. Beltz, 1921), by Anna Henriette Metger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wahlsprüche, devisen und sinnsprüche deutscher fürstengeschlechter des xvi. und xvii. jahrhunderts, (Leipzig, J. A. Barth, 1883), by Max Löbe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Helio-tropes, or, New posies for sundials / (London : Methuen, 1904), by John Parmenter and Perceval Landon (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Printers' mottoes; a collection of sentiments taken from title-pages and colophons of books issued by printers and publishers, booksellers, artists and patrons from the 15th century to the present, (New York, Priv. Print., 1926), by Bella Clara Landauer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose / (In Roma : Appresso Antonio Barre, 1555), by Paolo Giovio (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dialogo dell'imprese militari et amorose / (In Lione : Appresso Guglielmo Roviglio, 1559), by Paolo Giovio and Lodovico Domenichi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettera dell'illvstre s. Costanzo Landi, conte di Compiano, sopra vna impresa d'vn pino : con i motti postovi, & con la dechiaratione di tutta la natura del pino. (In Milano : Per Giouann' Antonio de gli Antonii, 1560), by Costanzo Landi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Haussprüche und inschriften in Deutschland : in Oesterreich und in der Schweiz / (Paderborn : F. Schöningh, 1898), by Alexander von Padberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The theater of fine devices : containing an hundred morall Emblemes / ([San Marino, Calif.] : Huntington Library, 1983), by Thomas Combe (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Koddige en ernstige opschriften, op luyffens, wagens, glazen, uithangborden, en andere taferelen : van langerhand by een gezamelt en uitgeschreven, door een liefhebber der zelve. (t'Amsterdam : Gedrukt by Jeroen Jeroense, 1698-1700), by Hieronymus Sweerts (page images at HathiTrust)
• The motto book; being a catalogue of epigrams, (East Aurora, N.Y., The Roycrofters, [1909]), by Elbert Hubbard (page images at HathiTrust)
• I Motti delle famiglie italiane / (Sala Bolognese : A. Forni, 1984), by Carlo Padiglione (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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