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Caroli Ruaei e Societate Jesu Carminum libri quatuor

La Rue, Charles de, 1643-1725, Edelinck, Gérard, 1640-1707, Watelé, Henri, 1640-1677, Coquin, Louis, 1627-1704, Veuve de Simon Bénard, fl. 1684-1712? · 1688 · Lutetiae Parisiorum : Apud viduam Simonis Benard ... · 34 pictures

Caroli Ruaei's Carminum libri quatuor is a Latin poetry collection by Jesuit Charles de La Rue, printed in Paris in 1688 for scholarly and religious readers. Its pictures are engraved emblem-style roundels, each with a Latin motto on a scroll around a small scene of a tree, bird, sun, or landscape, showing how a designer might frame text inside a circular medallion.

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