Emblemata nobilitati et vulgo scitu digna
Subtitle: singulis historijs symbola adscripta & elegantes versus historiam explica[n]tes : accessit galearu[m] expositio, & disceptatio de origine nobilitatis
By: omnia recens collecta, inventa, et in aes incisa à Theodoro de Bry Leondiense = Stam und Wapenbuchlein : wolgestelte und kunstliche Figurn, sampt dere[n] poetische[n] Erklärung, auch vo[n] Adels Anku[n]fft beid fur Adels Perso[ne]n, und allerhandt Standt / vo[n] newem in Kupffer gestochen, durch Dietrich von Brÿ Leodien
Publisher: [s.n.]
Published: 1592
Place of publication: Impressum Fra[n]co. ad M
Language: lat; ger
Number of pages: 91
Subjects: Heraldry; Emblems; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Emblemata nobilitati et vvlgo scitv digna; Stam und Wapenbuchlein
Notes: Signatures: A-B.

Engraved title page, dedicatory coat of arms and introductory engraved emblem included in foliation. 91 engraved plates of which 69 are escutcheons, some repeated, and 22 are emblems, interleaved with blank pages for autographs and personal notes. The emblems are numbered A and 1-21.

Head-pieces; decorative initials.

Landwehr, J.  German emblem books, 152

Latin and German.

Bound in contemporary calf; spine rebacked with original backstrip preserved; front and rear boards stamped in gilt with floral ornaments; stained edges; armorial bookplate on front pastedown; housed in green morocco slipcase lined in silk.