EMBLEM BOOKS - Petro MARCARDO. Meditatio Pia. de Nativitate Humano Generi Saluberrima. Vienna: Typis Leonhardi Formicae, 1592. Small 8vo. Title within woodcut border, engraved illustrations, initials and ornaments (rusthole in D3 touching a few letters, small hole in lower margin running from E5 to end, some very light spotting and staining). 19th-century brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt edges. Provenance: Allan Heywood Bright, 1912 (armorial bookplate); [?]H. A. Elton (ex-libris sticker). With 4 other emblem books, namely Hartmann Schoppero's De Admirabili Fallacia et Astuta Vulpeculae libri quatuor (Frankfurt, 1595, old vellum), Aegidii Albertini Hirnschleiffer (Munich, 1664, later calf), Vincartius's Sacrarum Heroidum Epistolae. Editio Seconda ([Munich], 1652, later morocco) and Senftleben's Philosophia Moralis ad Politico-Christiane conversandum (Prague, 1685, later parchment). The lot sold not subject to return. (5)