Alciati (Andrea) Diverse Imprese accommodate a diverse moralita..., translated by Giovanni Marquale, first edition in Italian, collation: A-I⁸, italic type, title with elaborate woodcut architectural border incorporating Rouille's eagle and serpent device, privilege printed on verso, 125 woodcut emblems and 11 illustrations of trees by Pierre Eskrich, emblems and text within intricate woodcut borders of grotesques and arabesques by Eskrich, contemporary faint ink signature to title, small stain to H4 & 5, first and last few leaves very slightly frayed at corners (repaired), engraved bookplate of Wm. Churchill Longman, modern half tan morocco over boards, upper cover with title and two grotesques drawn in pen & ink, preserved in modern cloth drop-back box, [Landwehr, Romanic, 46; Adams A598], 8vo (190 x 122mm.), Lyons, Guillaume Rouille [M. Bonhomme], 1549.

⁂ An attractive copy of the first emblem book with Italian text. Andrea Alciati is acknowledged as the creator of the first emblem book, which was published in Augsburg in 1531. Many later editions of his emblems were printed in Paris, Augsburg, Lyons, and the Low Countries.