L'art des emblèmes où s'enseigne la morale par les figures de la fable, de l'histoire, et de la nature. Ouvrage rempli de près de cinq cent figures.

8vo: 15-[1]-415-[1] pp. (1st f. blank; sm. marg. damp stain, ms. ownership crossed out and stamp on title).

Contemp. mottled calf, gilt orn. spine with raised bands, sprinkled edges. Very good copy.

Second edition (1st: Lyon, 1662 with a diff. collation) of this book on the basis of emblematics by the prolific French Jesuit Ménestrier (1631-1705). Illustrated with 366 woodcuts in text (not nearly 500 as announced on title). It is a continuous prose treatise, with quotes in Greek, Latin or French relating to the emblems.
Ref. DBS V:928:98. - Praz 423. - Landwehr, Romanic emblem books, 516. - Renard, J. - Catalogue des oeuvres imprimées de Claude-François Ménestrier, 1883, XCVIII. - Allust, P. - Recherches sur la vie et sur les oeuvres du P. Claude-François Ménestrier.