SAAVEDRA FAJARDO, Diego de. The Royal Politician Represented in One Hundred Emblems. English translation by Sir James Astry. London: Matthew Gillyflower and Luke Meredith, 1700. 2 volumes, 8° (190 x 120mm.) Engraved frontispiece portraits of William, Duke of Gloucester, illustration of a printer's workshop and 102 emblematic illustrations. (Occasional spotting in volume I.) Contemporary mottled calf, spines gilt (spines rubbed and slightly chipped at head and foot, joints weak). Provenance: Sir John Wentworth (armorial bookplate); Arnold Muirhead (book label). First English edition. Wing S-211; Praz p. 147. -- Herman HUGO. Pia Desideria Emblematis, Elegiis & affectibus SS. Patrum Illustrata. Antwerp: Henrich Aertssen, 1628. 12° (121 x 80mm.). Half-title, woodcut title border, full-page woodcut arms of Pope Urban VIII, 46 full-page emblematic woodcuts by Christopher à Sichem and several woodcut decorations. (Slight worming to top of blank inner margin from Ee5 to final leaf, small wormhole to outer blank margin from half-title to D3.) Modern mottled sheep, gilt. Provenance: C. R. Jardel (inscription); W. R. H. Jeudwine (bookplate). Second Antwerp edition. Praz p. 83. -- Silvestro PIETRASANCTA. De Symbolis Heroicis libri IX. Antwerp: Balthasar Moretus, Plantin Press, 1634-1635. 2 parts in 1 volume, 4° (207 x 145mm.) Engraved title by C. Galle after P. Rubens, full-page engraved portrait, full-page engraved armorial and genealogical illustrations, 268 engraved emblematic illustrations, numerous other engraved illustrations and diagrams. (Some browning and occasional staining.) Modern calf. Provenance: M. Delacour Damonville (book label, verso of 3S5); Robert Southey (signature dated London, Dec. 1830); Mary Lowell Putnam (inscription); James Freeman Clarke (inscription and signature dated Jan. 1, 1865). Praz p. 129. -- With one other (Jan DAVID. Occasio arrepta, neglecta. Huius commoda: Illius incommoda. Antwerp: Johannes Moretus, Plantin Press, 1605. 4°). (5)