BOVIO Carolo. Ignatius insignium, epigrammatum et elegiorum centurius expressus.
Rome, de Lazeris, 1655. 8vo: engraved title-page, portrait of the dedicatee Cardinal Antonio Barberini and 100 large copperplate emblems. Modern brown morocco. Only edition of an emblem book celebrating St. Ignatius Loyola, the founder of the author's Order. The subjects of the illustrations are imaginative and ingenious. They are well engraved and set within varied integral frames. Praz p.285; Landwehr 186
£1200
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