PICINELLI, Filippo (1604-78) Mondo simbolico o sia università d'imprese, scelte, spiegate ed illustrate con sentenze ed eruditioni sacre e profane. - Milano, Mognagha, 1653
Folio. Contemp. vellum, spine in compartments and gilt. With a fine portrait and 40 engr. emblems in the text. (32), 572, (176) pp.; light dampstain on two preliminary leaves. A good copy of the very first issue, in which the first leaf is blank as the frontispiece was only printed in 1654.
Rare first edition of this ponderous encyclopaedia of emblems, for which Picinelli consulted more than 500 authors. Also noteworthy is the long and detailed index of 176 pages! Vinciana, Aut. Ital. del '600, 272. BL STC II, 684. Praz 455. Landwehr 592.
Euro2500
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