[Rarebooks] FS: Reinzer's "Meteorologia Philosophica-Politica" w/83 emblems. Augsburg: 1709

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(EMBLEM BOOKS) Reinzer, Franciscus. METEOROLOGIA PHILOSOPHICO-POLITICA,
in Duodecim Dissertationes... Nunc Denuo ad Multorum Desiderium in
Lucem Correctior Edita... Augsburg: Jeremiae Wolfii. 1709. Folio.
(4),297,(3)pp. Copper engraved frontispiece and 83 engraved large
emblems in the text. This copy with an added (not called for) engraved
portrait of Joseph I inserted at front. Cont. calf, covers with gilt
borders and gilt stamped arms. Old neat repair to the top of the spine.
Binding a bit rubbed, but quite nice. A.e.g.    $2,000.00 (trade 
discount
allowed)
This is the third Latin edition (the first is 1697) but the edition
which contains the author's final revisions. He died in 1708. The fine
emblems are by Jacob Muller, Joh. Stridbeck, and Joh. Sibylla Krausen,
all after Wolfgang Josephus Kadoriza. See Praz p. 468. Landwehr German
494.

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