[Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce Emblem book. Augsburg: 1765

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(EMBLEM BOOKS) Manhart, Francois Xavier. QUINQUE INTIME CONSILIARII HOMINIS 
CHRISTIANI. Cum Facultate Superiorum. Augsburg: Matthaei Rieger. 1765. First 
edition. Sm. 8vo. (16),160pp. Illustrated with a copper engraved frontispiece 
and 5 finely engraved full-page text plates. Cont. mottled calf, gilt tooled 
spine with brown morocco label.     $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
Although not listed in the standard emblem book literature, this very scarce 
title (no copy in OCLC) has a very attractive series of emblematic plates 
relating to counseling the Christian man on Death, Judgment, Hell, Heaven and 
Eternity.

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