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Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Jan and Caspar Luiken (illustrator). 1st Edition. Hardcover small damage on the cover poor condition, 25 x 20 cm, 208 pp., German, 1st Edition, book condition: Good The size and variety in the realms of nature and customs: connected since the intention of the Creator and here presented and explained in a hundred fine copper engravings and as many physical and moral descriptions according to new taste, for everyone's benefit, but particularly for the advantage of young poets, painters, and artists. Engraved title-page and 100 half-page emblematic copper engravings. Each emblem accompanied by German distichs and text. The copperplates are by Jan and Caspar Luiken. According to the introduction, these plates have previously been used for Weigel's Ethica naturalis. Text by Georg Andreas Will. Cf. Holzmann. [208] p. : ill. ; 26 cm (4to) An educational emblem book based on various aspects of nature and human nature with 100 engraved emblems by Jan Luiken (41 images) and Caspar Luiken (59 images). Each emblem is accompanied by a German verse by the German engraver and publisher Johann Christoph Weigel. [This description may have been translated by AI.].