Heraldry.- Mysticism.- Morgan (Sylvanus) Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world, first edition, full-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee Edward, Earl of Manchester, to verso of title, full-page engraved table of Egyptian and mystical symbols to D4, numerous woodcut and engraved coats-of-arms in text, lacking 2I4, small worm traces to head and foot of title, A2&3 repaired at head, affecting headlines, occasional spotting, stained, lightly browned in places, an engraved portrait from another work mounted on front free endpaper, antique style calf, [Wing M2738], small 4to, printed by T. Hewer for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhil, and Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1666. ⁂ A rare copy of this work that views heraldry from a symbolic and mystical point of view, paralleling the alchemical interest and literature of the period. Most copies of this book are thought to have been destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
Heraldry.- Mysticism.- Morgan (Sylvanus) Armilogia sive Ars chromocritica, the language of arms by the colours & metals: being analogically handled according to the nature of things, and fitted with apt motto's to the heroical science of herauldry in the symbolical world, first edition, full-page woodcut arms of the dedicatee Edward, Earl of Manchester, to verso of title, full-page engraved table of Egyptian and mystical symbols to D4, numerous woodcut and engraved coats-of-arms in text, lacking 2I4, small worm traces to head and foot of title, A2&3 repaired at head, affecting headlines, occasional spotting, stained, lightly browned in places, an engraved portrait from another work mounted on front free endpaper, antique style calf, [Wing M2738], small 4to, printed by T. Hewer for Nathaniel Brook at the Angel in Cornhil, and Henry Eversden at the Greyhound in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1666. ⁂ A rare copy of this work that views heraldry from a symbolic and mystical point of view, paralleling the alchemical interest and literature of the period. Most copies of this book are thought to have been destroyed in the Great Fire of London.
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