Wenceslaus Hollar|John Vicars
1639 · Etching; first state of two · Drawings and Prints
Title page with the text surrounded by 10 small portraits of men of different nationalities: a Syrian, a Hebrew, an Arab, a Chaldaean, an Egyptian, a Greek, an Ancient Roman, a Gaul, a Spaniard and a Modern Roman.
Legatio batavica ad magnum Tartariæ chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinæ imperatorem : historiarum narratione, quæ legatis in provinciis Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung, Peking, & aula imperatoriâ ab anno 1665 ad annum 1657 obtigerunt, ut & ardua Sinensium in bello tartarico fortunâ, provinciarum accurata geographia, urbium delineatione, nec non artis & naturæ miraculis ex animalium, vegetabilium, mineralium genere per centum & quinquaginta æneas figuras passim illustrata & conscripta vernaculeGeorg Horn|Jacob van Meurs|Johannes Nieuhof
Splendore delle virtuose giovaniJeronimo Calepino|Iseppo Foresto
Plate 17: Illustration to Canto XVII, from Torquato Tasso's 'Gerusalemme liberata III'Antonio Tempesta
Lucidario di RecamiJeronimo Calepino|Iseppo Foresto
Petri Gyllii De Bosporo thracio libri III ; Petri Gyllii De topographia ConstantinopoleosApvd Gvlielmvm, svb scvto veneto|Pierre Gilles
Men collecting dung dropping from the hindquarters of a mule, with a rider sitting backward on the mule and holding its tail aside, surrounded by onlookers spread around a stepped platform, from 'Secular emblems' (Emblemata saecularia)Johann Theodor de Bry
Ornamento nobile...Fatta da Lucretia Romana (Libro V of the Corona)Cesare Vecellio|Alessandro de' Vecchi
Title Page: Comedies of Terence (Publii Terentii Comoediae)Abraham Bosse
Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Title Page engraved within architectonic and sculptural borderEtienne DuPérac|Antonio Lafreri
Lansquenets and ladiesChristoph Bockstorffer
Vita Beati P. Ignatii LoiolaeSaint Ignatius of Loyola|Peter Paul Rubens|Cornelis Galle I
Frontispiece, from SolimanJacques Callot|Prospero Bonarelli