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16th century German binding: full blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards

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

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Woodcut illustration of Niobe, Amphion and their dead sons

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Device of Sebastianus Gryphius, 1493-1556

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Woodcut illustration of Pope Joan

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Woodcut of Our Lady of Sorrows. Used by Valentin Schumann of Leipzig.

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

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Stamps from the Jesuit college in Naples and from the Reale Biblioteca Borbonica (Biblioteca nazionale (Naples, Italy))

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Woodcut, depicting a scholar wearing spectacles and holding a fly-swatter, attributed to Heinrich Vogtherr

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Antony Constans

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Woodcut illustration of Verginia's trial before Appius Claudius and her death at the hand of her father Verginius

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Woodcut illustration of Amalthea (the Cumaean sibyl), Tarquinius Superbus and the Sibylline books

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Armorial bookplate of the Pfau family (Winterthur, Switzerland)

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

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Woodcut of St. Paul at his writing table; used by Hans Lufft of Wittenberg

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Stamp of the Servite Order in Bologna, Italy, from the Convento di S. Maria dei Servi di Bologna (Conventus Fratrum Servorum Bononia)

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Device of Strasbourg printer Mathias Apiarius, ca. 1500-1554

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Woodcut illustration of Artemisia II of Caria drinking the ashes of her husband Mausolus

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Woodcut illustration of Circe and Odysseus with men transformed into animals

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Woodcut illustration of the suicide of Seneca and the attempted suicide of his wife Pompeia Paulina

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Bookplate of John Carter Brown (1797-1874); inscription by Lawrence C. Wroth (1884-1970)

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Device of printer Tolommeo Janicolo (Zappella 1184)

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Woodcut illustration of Cleopatra and Mark Antony

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Woodcut of Saint Jerome

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