Emblem Book -- Pietrasancta (Silvestro): Symbola Heroica, Amsterdam, apud Janssonio Waesbergios & Henr. Wetstenium, 1682, 4to, second edition, engraved title by Corn. Galle after Rubens, 268 engraved illustrations, early 19th-century straight-grained blue morocco, gilt, gilt inner dentelles (extremities rubbed), g.e. [Landwehr 499; Funck 379; Praz 455; De Backer-Sommervogel VI, 740.15]

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Emblem Book -- Pietrasancta (Silvestro): Symbola Heroica, Amsterdam, apud Janssonio Waesbergios & Henr. Wetstenium, 1682, 4to, second edition, engraved title by Corn. Galle after Rubens, 268 engraved illustrations, early 19th-century straight-grained blue morocco, gilt, gilt inner dentelles (extremities rubbed), g.e. [Landwehr 499; Funck 379; Praz 455; De Backer-Sommervogel VI, 740.15]

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First printed by Plantin in 1634. The original plates of the Rubens title and the engravings for this Jesuit emblem book are still in the possession of the Musée Plantin in Antwerp. Funck notes that the retouching of the plates was entrusted to André Pauwels who was paid the enormous sum of 268 florins for completing the job.

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