Casparius Barlæi Antverpiani poemata. : Editio IV, altera plus parte auctior. Pars I. Heroicum
A Latin poetry collection by Caspar van Baerle, a Flemish-born humanist, printed in Amsterdam in 1645 by Johannes Blaeu for a scholarly readership, with its first part devoted to heroic verse on the Dutch conquest of Brazil. The two pictures are printer's devices: a heraldic coat of arms with a crest and the motto Laudido, and a woodcut of an armillary sphere flanked by winged Fame and a bearded figure, under the motto Indefessus agendo. A designer might borrow the classical emblem vocabulary of motto banners, personified figures and armillary spheres for a learned or heraldic identity.
