Empresas morales / por Don Iuan de Boria ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borja, Juan de, 1533-

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1900.

Conduct of life.

Exempla--Early works to 1800.

Exempla.

Emblems--Early works to 1800.

Emblems.

Penn Provenance:

Nolty, John (bookplate)

Parker, Edward J., Mr. and Mrs. (donors)

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered leaves, 101 leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 21 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

Praga : Por Iorge Nigrin, 1581.

Notes:

Signatures: A² B-2C⁴ [superscript chi]2C⁴.

Includes 100 engraved emblems.

Woodcuts: t.p. border; initials; tail-pieces.

Each page surrounded by double red lines.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: first leaf (title) wanting; supplied in photocopy.

Fine contemporary hand-coloring.

Kislak Center Copy purchased in July 1988 from the Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company.

Cited in:

Palau y Dulcet (2nd ed.) 33112

Index Aureliensis 122.417

Henkel-Schöne p. XLIX

Gallardo 1444

Hispanic Society. Printed books, 1468-1700, p. 71

Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese books of devices and emblems, 172

Sánchez Pérez, A. Lit. emblemática española, p. 88-96

Praz, M. Studies in seventeenth-century imagery (2nd ed.) p. 281

OCLC:

21936852