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[GAILKIRCHER, Wilhelm]. Quadriga aeternitatis universi generis humani meta. Munich: Raphael Sadeler, 1619.
Small 8° (147 x 90mm). Engraved title with 4 circular emblems, 9 emblematic illustrations on verso of leaves, 5 with a large woodcut ornament on recto, by Sadeler, colophon with printer’s device on recto of last leaf. (Title lightly spotted, ink of first 2 words of bottom five lines faded on G7r, a few light spots throughout.) Maroon morocco gilt by Mackenzie (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry Huth (1815-1878; bookplate) – A. H. Bright (bookplate, dated 1912).
FIRST EDITION. Landwehr German 302; Praz p. 345.
Small 8° (147 x 90mm). Engraved title with 4 circular emblems, 9 emblematic illustrations on verso of leaves, 5 with a large woodcut ornament on recto, by Sadeler, colophon with printer’s device on recto of last leaf. (Title lightly spotted, ink of first 2 words of bottom five lines faded on G7r, a few light spots throughout.) Maroon morocco gilt by Mackenzie (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Henry Huth (1815-1878; bookplate) – A. H. Bright (bookplate, dated 1912).
FIRST EDITION. Landwehr German 302; Praz p. 345.
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