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Woodcut illustration used by Georg Merkel of Nuremberg.

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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 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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Two ownership inscriptions (one from the Augustinian house at Monticiano); unidentified armorial stamp

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Armorial bookplate of the Trotter family of Mortonhall

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Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, 1730-1800

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Kloster Höglwörth

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

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Paper ms. leaf of Christian theological notes in a post-medieval (early modern?) hand used as binder's waste (front free endpaper)

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16th-century German binding: detail of central panel of left board

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

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

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Henry Elford Luxmoore (1841-1926); Austin Lamont (1905-1969)

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Woodcut illustration of the Amazons Lampedo and Marpesia

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Woodcut illustration of Poppaea Sabina and Nero

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Continuation of a letter from Erskine Neale (1804-1883) to publisher Alexander Elder (1790-1876)

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Woodcut device of Strasbourg printer Mathias Apiarius, ca. 1500-1554

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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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