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Caroli Ruaei e Societate Jesu Carminum libri quatuor

La Rue, Charles de, 1643-1725, Baseggio, Lorenzo · 1699 · Venetiis : Typis Laurentii Basilii · 27 pictures

A Latin poetry collection in four books by Charles de La Rue, a Jesuit, printed in Venice in 1699 by Lorenzo Baseggio for a scholarly and religious readership. Its pictures are small circular woodcut emblems, each with a Latin motto band above or around a scene of trees, birds, sun, clouds and landscape, offering a designer compact, self-contained roundel compositions with radiating rays and engraved hatching.

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