Apologi creaturarum
Contributors: Gheeraerts, Marcus, approximately 1520- ill; Plantin, Christophe, approximately 1520-1589, printer; Jode, Gerard de, 1509-1591, publisher; Nicolaus, Pergaminus; Mayno, de' Mayneri, 1368; Alcott, Amos Bronson, 1799-1888, former owner; Pratt, Frederic Alcott, 1862-1910, former owner; Pratt, Frederic Wolsey, former owner
Publisher: G. de Jode excu.
Published: 1584
Place of publication: Antwerp
Language: lat
Number of pages: 65
Subjects: Emblems; Early works to 1800
Other titles: Apologi creatvrarvm; Dialogus creaturarum.
Notes: Colophon: Excvdebat Gerardo Ivdae, Christophorvs Plantinys.

Dedication signed: Iohannes Moerman.

Engraved title page and 65 numbered etchings by Marcus Gheeraerts.

Includes index.

Signatures: ***⁴ A-P⁴ Q⁶.

Based on the Dialogus creaturarum attributed to Nicolaus, Pergaminus, and Maynus de Mayneriis.

Another edition, undated, without publisher's name has the same plates except those on p. 17, 33 and 64. Cf. Landwehr.

Landwehr, J. Emblem books in the Low Countries, 441

Voet, L. Plantin Press, IV, 1706