[Emblemata] Weigel, C. Ethica Naturalis seu Documenta Moralia

e variis rerum naturalium proprietatibus virtutum vitiorumque symbolicis imaginibus collecta. (Nürnberg, C. Weigel, ca. 1700). 100 lvs. w. 100 half-p. engr. ills by J. and C. Luyken, contemp. hcalf, 4to.

Part of title-p. cut-out and mounted on detached endpaper, manuscr. index on final endpaper. Spine edges chipped, occas. sl. soiling, otherwise a good and sound copy. The emblems offer a structured representation of natural phenomena, including the elements, seasons, animals (incl. one illustrating a whaling scene) and various disasters. Rare.