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![[picture: front cover, Allegories and Emblems]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/tn/000-front-cover-q75-401x500.jpg "[picture: front cover, Allegories and Emblems]")
Images from Allegorien und Embleme (Alegories and Emblems) (Volume II, [Heraldic] Emblems) by Martin Gerlach Senior(1846 – 1918).
I do not have a copy of this book but bought a set of page images; unfortunately the pages were not held very flat and the resolution is lower than I’d like, but copies of this book are incredibly expensive as far as I can tell (and volume I even more so).
Title: Allegorien und Embleme, Vol II
Published by: Martin Gerlach
City: Vienna
Date: 1882
Total items: 13
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Guild of Carriage-Makers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/001-img017-full-page-cherub-emblem-q75-151x200.jpg "[picture: Guild of Carriage-Makers]")
This incredibly busy design is for the guild of carriage-makers (I think) in 1612. The border includes two scantily-clad women, six scantily-clad or naked small children, two gryphons, a bunch of baroque scroll-work, signs of a key and a pair of dividers (maybe?) and, in the centre of the busy frame, a seated lady holding a flag or banner in one hand [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Menu Card 4: Waitress]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/0187-menucard-04-waitress-q75-139x200.jpg "[picture: Menu Card 4: Waitress]")
![[picture: front cover, Allegories and Emblems]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/000-front-cover-q75-160x200.jpg "[picture: front cover, Allegories and Emblems]")
front cover, Allegories and Emblems
The front cover of the second volume of Allegorien und Embleme has a quarter-leather binding and gilt-stamped decoration with black and red printing that includes a woman and an heraldic shield. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Menu Card 2: Chef]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/0187-menucard-02-chef-q75-137x200.jpg "[picture: Menu Card 2: Chef]")
![[picture: Historiated Initial Letter U With Clock and Cherub]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Gerlach-AllegorianUndEmbleme/wm/big/163-img189c-initial-letter-u-clock-cherub-q75-171x200.jpg "[picture: Historiated Initial Letter U With Clock and Cherub]")
Historiated Initial Letter U With Clock and Cherub
This inhabited, or historiated, initial, features a clock with a bell on the top of it which a winged cherub is about to hit with a small hammer; there’s also a butterfly and a [...] [more...] [$]
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