Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.

Creator:: Ripa, Cesare, 1560–1645
Title(s):: Iconologia, or, Moral emblems / by Caesar Ripa, wherein are express'd, various images of virtues, vices, passions, arts, humours, elements and celestial bodies, as design'd by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, and modern Italians ; useful for orators, poets, painters, sculptors, and all lovers of ingenuity ; illustrated with three hundred twenty-six humane figures, with their explanations ; newly design'd, and engraven on copper, by I. Fuller, painter, and other masters ; by the care and at the charge of P. Tempest.
Additional Title(s):: Moral emblems
Iconologia. English
Published/Created:: London : Printed by Benj. Motte, MDCCIX [1709]
Physical Description:: [4], 81 leaves, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (326 emblems on 81 plates) ; 24 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
N7740 R513
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/alma/991815823408651
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Paginated by numbered openings with letterpress on versos to face illustrations on rectos. The final illustration, numbers 81, is a plate.
Added engraved title page.
First edition, in Italian, published at Rome, without illustrations.
English short title catalogue, T154167
Subject Terms:: Brent Ely Library -- Bookplate.
Emblems -- Early works to 1800.
Symbolism in art -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:: Emblem books.
Annotations (Provenance) -- 20th century.
Contributors:: Tempest, Pierce, 1653–1717, editor.
Fuller, Isaac, 1606–1672, illustrator.
Motte, Benjamin, -1710, printer.
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