Signatures: a A-X a (V5 missigned A5)

Above each emblem is title and brief statement of subject. Below it is explanatory Latin verse in italics and on the following page, a "narratio philosophica" in roman

T.p. with grotesque border. Device depicting Perseus and Medusa. Emblems within woodcut borders. Head and tail pieces. A decorated initial

Includes index

Binding: 19th-century marbled paper, half red goatskin. Title in gilt on spine label (PETRI / COSTALII / PEGMA), date at foot. Page edges gilt

At upper left of front pastedown is Theodore Besterman's calligraphic label, signed P.S

Signatures: a⁸ A-X⁸ a⁴ (V5 missigned A5)

Catalogo ragionato dei libri d'arte e d'antichità posseduti dal conte Cicognara, 1875

[16], 336, [8] p. (the last blank) : 18 cm. (8vo)

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