1639

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Source:

Title: Mundi lapis lydius sive vanitas per veritatem falsi accusata et convicta.
Author: Anton van Bourgoigne (Antonius a Burgundia)
Publisher: -
Printer: Jo. Cnobbaert (Cnobbarus, Joan. Cnobbari)
Illustrators: Andreas Pauwels, Abraham van Diepenbeeck, Theodoor Jonas van Merlen
Engraver: -
Location: Antwerpiae
Year: 1639
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2], [USTC].

Comments:

A Dutch translation ‘Des wereldts proef-steen, ofte, De ydelheydt door de waerheyd beschuldight ende overtuyght van valscheydt’ was published in 1643 in Antwerp by ‘de weduwe ende erfgename Ian Cnobbaert’. [Scan 2]
A German translation was published in 1712 by Johann Jacob Lotter in Augsburg entitled: ‘Mundi lapis Lydius, oder, Der Welt Probier-Stein : das ist, Emblematische Sitten-Lehren’. [The illustration was reversed. See below].
A German version ‘Die Eitelkeit der welt In wohl ausgesonnenen Sinnbildern’, printed in 1727 by Chr. Gottlieb contains a new illustration of a printing press.

Technique:

Engraving.