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Title: L’idea di un prencipe politico christiano. Rappresentata con bellissime imprese, quali dimostrano il vero esser politico, con esempi historici, e discorsi morali.
Author: Diego de Saavedra Fajardo
Publisher: -
Printer: Marco Garzoni
Illustrator: -
Engraver: -
Location: Venezia
Year: 1648
Links: [Scan 1], [Scan 2], [Scan 3], [USTC].

Comments:

This book has been reprinted and translated many times, often with a different illustration of a wooden printing press. A preliminary bibliography of this book lists 48 editions. An overview of the 44 illustrations of a wooden press in this book can be seen here.

There are several scans of this illustration:
- Getty research foundation,
- National Central library, Rome.

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Engraving