Hieroglyphica, siue, Antiqua schemata gemmarum anularium : quaesita moralia, politica, historica, medica, philosophica, & sublimiora, omnigenam eruditionem & altiorem sapientiam attingentia
A 1653 Latin emblem and gem-engraving book printed in Padua by Sebastiano Sardi, compiled by Fortunio Liceti with engravings by Giovanni Georgi, aimed at scholars studying antique gems and their moral, historical and philosophical meanings. The pictures are small oval engravings in fine parallel hatching, showing mythic figures, a centaur struggle, a tiny temple with a laurel branch, and fantastical hybrid creatures inside ornate borders, offering a designer tight oval vignettes, dense line shading and decorative scroll frames to borrow.
