La doctrine des moeurs, qui represente en cent tableaux, la difference des passions. Et enseigne la maniere de parvenir à la sagesse universelle.

8vo: [16]-412 pp. (emblem 59 printed upside down; sm. tear reaching text at ff. V4, Bb3 & Mm3, blank bottom corner of f. Mm2 repaired, ff. Ll2-3 clumsily repaired with brown paper tape, tiny wormtrack in title becoming single wormhole in 1st half of vol.).

19th-c. red three quarter shagreen (joints, corners and bands sl. rubbed), gilt-ruled covers with marbled paper, gilt spine with 5 raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.

Rare edition (1st Paris 1646) of this emblem book by de Gomberville (1600-1674), closely modelled on O. Vaenius' "Q. Horatii Flacci emblemata" (1607). Ill. with 103 full-page engr. emblems (60 + 43). Woodcut head- and tailpieces. Woodcut mark on title.
Ref. French emblem books F.273. - Landwehr (Romanic) 478. - Praz 402. - Not in Emblem books Leiden.
Prov. Ms. ownership entry on flyleaf & title.