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Woodcut illustration (possibly representing the devil as a bird-catcher?) used by Heinrich Stayner of Augsburg

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Illustration of the Holy Roman Emperor with the insignia of the Habsburgs and of four dukedoms (from left: Schwaben [or Swabia], Pfalzgrafschaft bei Rhein [or Palatinate], Braunschweig, Lorraine [or L...

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Woodcut illustration used by Georg Merkel of Nuremberg.

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Woodcut illustration of Sappho

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Austin Lamont (1905-1969); Hugh Tempest Sheringham

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Woodcut illustration of a verse retelling of the parable of Dives and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) by Jacob Locher. Used by Silvan Otmar of Augsburg.

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Woodcut arms of Heinrich von Plauen (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Book label of Dawson's Book Shop in Los Angeles, California.

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Woodcut publisher's device of Durand Gerlier of Paris with his address in a rebus

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Note, signed Jacobus Kiechlin, recording the personal purchase of this book by Johannes Faber, Bishop of Vienna, and his bequest thereof on 10 January 1540 to the library of the College of St. Nichola...

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Woodcut ('Sauritt des Papsts') after Lucas Cranach the Elder, used by Christian Rödinger the Elder of Magdeburg, of the pope riding a sow, holding steaming excrement

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Woodcut illustration of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), cardinal, theologian and envoy of Pope Eugene IV, holding a girdle book. Used by Georg Rhaw of Wittenberg

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Woodcut illustration of Venus and Cupid, with Vulcan chaining Venus and Mars while Dis looks on in the background

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Woodcut (hand-colored by a reader) featuring emblems of various Swiss cantons (among them, Basel, Berne, Uri, Zug and Glarus) around central Habsburg arms. Used by Pamphilus Gengenbach of Basel.

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Title page of a book from the library of Maria Benigna Francisca Piccolomini (1635-1701)

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Historiated woodcut title border used by Johann Schönsperger of Zwickau

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Woodcut illustration of Porcia Catonis counseling Marcus Junius Brutus, Julius Caesar's death at the hands of Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Porcia's suicide

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Woodcut arms of Gottfried von Hohenlohe (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut illustration of Rhea Silvia and the birth of Romulus and Remus

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Woodcut illustration of Jupiter and Io with Mercury and a drowsing Argus

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Woodcut illustration of Chiomara, wife of Orgiagon of Galatia

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Woodcut illustration of Medusa and Neptune embracing beside a winged horse (either Pegasus or Chrysaor), with Perseus mounted upon Pegasus (following later developments of the Perseus legend) in the b...

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Woodcut illustration of Hercules (dressed as both a man and a woman) and Iole

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Woodcut of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven with the Christ Child, with artist's(?) monogram at foot of image. Used by Wolfgang Stoeckel.

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