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1640

[brief description]

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Source:

Title: Idea de vn principe politico christiano, rapresentada en cien empresas
Author: Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
Publisher: -
Printer: Nicolao Enrico
Illustrator: -
Engraver: Johann Sadeler the younger, or Giovanni Paolo Bianchi.
Location: Monaco
Year: March 1, 1640
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2], [USTC 1].

Comments:

This book has been reprinted and translated many times, often with a different illustration of a wooden printing press. A preliminary bibliography of this book lists 48 editions. An overview of the 44 illustrations of a wooden press in this book can be seen here.

There are several scans of this illustration:
- Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen,
- National Central Library of Rome,
- Bayerische Staatsbibliothek,
- Getty Research Institute.

Technique:

Engraving

Publications

Author (year) title, publisher. (figure number).

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