Theatrum Memoriae Nobilis ac Almae Societatis Unitorum (1688-1801)
Spominska knjiga ljubljanske plemiške družbe sv. Dizma

• Hardcover: 17 v.,7.752 pp facsimile
• Binding: half leather
• Language: Slovenian, English, German
• Publish Date: 2008
• Publisher:The Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Shipping Weight: 120 kg
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 41 x 34 cm

De-luxe limited (100 copies) edition  – facsimile after the original).

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Theatrum Memoriae Nobilis ac Almae Societatis Unitorum (1688-1801)
Spominska knjiga ljubljanske plemiške družbe sv. Dizma

• Hardcover: 3 v. : col. ill. ; 34 cm, 304pp facsimile
• Binding: wooden covers – covered with black velvet, silver plated corners
• Language: Slovenian, English, German
• Publish Date: 2001
• Publisher: Mladinska knjiga
• Shipping Weight: 15 kg
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 27 x 34 cm

De-luxe limited (200 copies) edition  – facsimile after the original manuscript) + 2 vol. of studies.

The manuscript was created between 1688 and 1801 (113 years) and represents the chronicle of the Ljubljana society of St. Dizme. Each of the 195 members of this fraternity contributed its luxuriously decorated leaf with a emblem in which it was included on the top of the Latin rivers, a chosen German member’s name, in the middle of a personal or family coat of arms with a member’s life motto, the date of enrollment, and the subsequent year of death and, in some cases, some other comments. Over the years, 187 full-length illuminations have been accumulated, some of which have been supplemented with gilding. Other inscriptions in the memorial book are in German. The book is illustrated by at least twelve illuminators, but most of them are not known. Andrej Trost, Simon Tadej Volbenk Grahovar, Bartolomej Ramschissl and Matija Greyscher stand out among the well known. The only portrait is the image of Wolfgang Sigismund Künpach, but not included directly in Künpach’s presentation, but is placed at the beginning of the book; with this he was given special honor as the founder. Most of those enrolled do not have a curriculum vitae, since after the death of Janez Gregor Dolničar (l.1799), the first secretary of the company, his successors did not record the biographies of the deceased.
Via illuminations we can follow the development of fine arts, from rich baroque to light handball and ultimately to the language of enlightenment. Although it is not a book of emblems in the narrow sense of the word, but as a memorial book by the company of educators, the Ljubljana manuscript is also, on a global scale, one of the important monuments of emblematic.

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Johann Weichard von Valvasor, Bartholomaeus Ramschissl
The great heraldry book / Opus insignium armorumque / Velika grbovna knjiga / Das grosse Wappenbuch (1687-1688)

• Hardcover: 2 v. : col. ill. ; 32 cm, 388pp + 198pp
• Binding: Leather
• Language: Slovenian, English, German
• Publish Date: 1993
• Publisher: Slovenian Academy of Science and Art
• Shipping Weight: 5 kg
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 40 x 32 cm

De-luxe limited (1000 copies) edition (facsimile after the original manuscript) of Valvasor’s The Great Heraldry Book. 2041 hand-drawn and colored coat of arms from all over Europe, with focus on the coat of arms of the Duchy of Carniola.
The codex contains 388 consecutively numbered leaves. The depictions and blazons are on the right-hand page while the back page of the leaves is always blank. The alphabetical index of all names mentioned in the heraldry book is on leaves 371 to 388. This index was published already in 1898. It comprises 1478 names of states, counties, provinces, noble families, dioceses, abbeys, towns, boroughs and different persons. Vol.2 includes studies, bibliographical references and index.
(No. of copy: 131)

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2 books binded in one!

Tergeminae Concionis Pentecoste Ad Adventum. (Vol. 2) by Philip Hartung

and

Problemata Evangelica Ut Plurimum Emblematis Coronata. by Philip Hartung

• Hardcover: Vol. 1. (12pp + 628pp + 10pp) +Vol. 2. (4pp +336pp + 6pp)
• Language: Latin
• Publish Date: 1686 and 1689
• Publisher: Literis Nicolai Dexteri
• Shipping Weight: 2400 g
• Condition: Good

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Die Ehre dess Hertzogthums Crain: das ist, Wahre, gründliche, und recht eigendliche Belegen- und Beschaffenheit dieses … Römisch-Keyserlichen herrlichen Erblandes / … durch selbst-eigene … Historisch-Topographische Beschreibung, in funffzehen, wiewohl in vier Haupt-Theile unterschiedenen, Büchern, wie auch häuffigen Abrissen und zierlichen Kupffer-Figuren, ausgebreitet, von Johann Weichard Valvasor … ; aber in reines Teutsch gebracht, auch, auf Begehren, mit manchen beyfügigen Erklärungen, Anmerck-und Erzehlungen, erweitert durch Erasmum Francisci by J. W. Valvasor (in 4. Vol)

• Hardcover:

Vol 1. – 1970. – [54], 696pp, [4] f.
Vol. 2. – 1970. – 836, [2]pp, [1] f.
Vol. 3. – 1971. – 730, [2]pp, [14] f.
Vol. 4. – 1974. – 610, [66]pp, [4] f.

• Binding: white leather

• Language: German, Latin
• Publish Date: 1970-1974
• Publisher: (Nürnberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1689), Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana and Trofenik, München
• Shipping Weight: 11900 g
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 33,5 x 22 cm

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Die Ehre dess Hertzogthums Crain: das ist, Wahre, gründliche, und recht eigendliche Belegen- und Beschaffenheit dieses … Römisch-Keyserlichen herrlichen Erblandes / … durch selbst-eigene … Historisch-Topographische Beschreibung, in funffzehen, wiewohl in vier Haupt-Theile unterschiedenen, Büchern, wie auch häuffigen Abrissen und zierlichen Kupffer-Figuren, ausgebreitet, von Johann Weichard Valvasor … ; aber in reines Teutsch gebracht, auch, auf Begehren, mit manchen beyfügigen Erklärungen, Anmerck-und Erzehlungen, erweitert durch Erasmum Francisci by J. W. Valvasor (in 4. Vol)

• Hardcover:

Vol 1. – 1970. – [54], 696pp, [4] f. .
Vol. 2. – 1970. – 836, [2]pp, [1] f.
Vol. 3. – 1971. – 730, [2]pp, [14] f.
Vol. 4. – 1974. – 610, [66]pp, [4] f.

• Binding: artificial leather

• Language: German, Latin
• Publish Date: 1970-1974
• Publisher: (Nürnberg, Wolfgang Moritz Endter, 1689), Mladinska knjiga, Ljubljana and Trofenik, München
• Shipping Weight: 11290 g
• Condition: Good

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Machinae Novae Fausti Verantii siceni cum Declaratione Latine, Italica, Hispanica, Gallica et Germanica by Verantii Fausti

Reprint of the edition Venice 1615/1616

• Hardcover:  19pp + 19pp + 18pp + 20pp + 20pp. + 49 engarvings; 2° 
  
• Binding: canvas
• Language: Latin
• Publish Date: 1965
• Publisher: Munich, Heinz Moos Verlag
• Shipping Weight: 2440 g
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 36 x 25 cm

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2 books binded in one!

Exempla biblica. In materias morales distributa, olim conscripta, a reverendissimo domino Nicolao Hanapo, Patriarcha Jerosolymitano, Sac.Ord.Praedic. nunc verd post complures hujus aurei operis factas editiones in diversis locis, & temporibus by Nicolao Hanapo (1740)

and

Allgemeines Klaghauß Oder, Catholische Leichpredigen: Bey Begräbnussen der Kinder, Jüngling, Jungfrawen, Ehe: Männeren, Weiberen, Kindbetheren, Wittiben, Alten … : Auch vil andere Discurs von Andenck: Ankündigungen Gedächtnuß … nutzlich zugebrauchen by Georg Pistorius (1693)

• Hardcover: 1 (14pp + 334pp +6pp) + 2 (350pp + 6pp)
• Binding: leather
• Language: Latin, German
• Publish Date: 1740 and 1693
• Publisher:  In officina Eckebrechtina and In verlag Johann Caspar Bencards
• Shipping Weight: 2020 g
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 20 x 19 cm

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