Abrahami Gorlaei antverpiani Dactyliothecae, seu, Annulorum sigillarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus, ex ferro, aere, argento & auro promptuarii pars prima[-secunda]
Subtitle: collectis aliunde & ineditis & editis annulorum figuris auctior
By: cum explicationibus Jacobi Gronovii
Contributors: Gronovius, Jacobus, 1645-1716; Gheyn, Jacob de, 1565-1629; Zylvelt, Anthony van, b. ca. 1640
Publisher: Excudit Petrus Vander Aa, bibliop.
Published: 1695
Place of publication: Lugduni Batavorum
Language: lat
Subjects: Early works to 1800; Classical Gems; Catalogs; Private collections; Classical Rings
Other titles: Dactyliothecae, seu, Annulorum sigillarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus; Annulorum sigillarium quorum apud priscos tam Graecos quam Romanos usus; Dactyliotheca, seu, Gemmarum annulorumque ex Abrahami Gorlaei aliorumque eruditorum cimeliarchiis promptuarium
Notes: Ill., v. 1. Added engraved t.p. Author's frontispiece port. by Jacob de Gheyn II; see Hollstein. Engraved t.p. vignette. Folded engraved port. of Gronovius, signed: A. v. Zylvelt fec. Decorated woodcut initials. The 109 ill. in v. 1 depict signet rings and enlargements of impressions taken from them. The 1st ill. in each gathering of 4 is signed in the plate A-Dd, with the last plate signed Ee.

Hollstein, J.H.W.  Dutch and Flemish engravings, v. 7, p. 159

Library's copy comprises pt. 1 only.

Binding: leather over pasteboard, the leather streaked on the turnins. The spine gold tooled; red label with title: GORLAE / DACTYL, and in compartment below: TO. I. Edges sprinkled red and brown.