[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce final edition of Alciati's emblem book. Madrid: 1781

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(EMBLEM BOOKS) Alciati, Andrea. EMBLEMATA... Cum Facili et Compendiosa 
Explicatione, Qua Obscura Illustrantur, Dubiaque Omnia Solvuntur, per Claudium 
Minoem Divionensem. Ejusdem Alciati Vita. Editio Novissima a Mendis Expurgata, 
Priorique Integritati Restituta. Madrid: Ex Typographia Pantaleonis Aznar. 1781. 
Sm. 8vo. (12),405,(3)pp. Index. Illustrated with 211 finely executed woodcuts 
(2-1/4” x 1-3/4”). Cont. vellum, soiled, hand lettered spine, original leather 
ties mostly present. Curiously, pages 159-206 are probably from another copy 
and some of those woodcuts (nos. 84 to 101) are partially colored in brown.    
 $600.00 (trade discount allowed)
Scarce edition. OCLC records only 4 copies in the U. S. and 2 in Europe. 
Landwehr, ROMANIC EMBLEM BOOKS #105, “The last edition of Alciati to be published.”
 Palau 6067.

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