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Title-page with title written in a rectangle placed in a classical monument, surmounted by the personification of 'Optics', a female figure holding a sceptre and a model of a pyramid, and flanked by an eagle and a peacock, Mercury holding the head of Argus at left, Minerva holding a shield with a Gorgon's head at right; after Peter Paul Rubens; masked impression with inscription covered during printing but lettering still faintly visible; title to first edition of Franciscus Aguilon's "Opticorum libri sex" (Antwerp). 1613 Engraving
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