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Emblematic imagery - 18th Century Frontispiece engravings
Many books, during the 17th and 18th centuries, adopted a frontispiece engraving opposite the letterpress title page. This could be tipped into the letterpress book after printing and was less expensive and time consuming than printing an engraving on the title page. Often these frontispieces symbolically summarised the contents of the book.
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Tractatus chymicus 1721


Maldiny 1726


Sonnenglanz 1728


Sonnenglanz 1728


Cohausen - Helmontius 1731


Drebbel 1732


Ercker, 1736


Keil - Philosophische 1736


Toeltius 1737


Physica subterranea 1738


Vanderbeeg 1739

Fictuld Probier-Stein 1740


Hermetical Triumph 1740

Fictuld Triumph-Bogen 1741


Kiessling, 1741


Siebmacher 1743

Jugel Unterredung 1743


Jugel Vier elementen 1744