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MENESTRIER, François (1631-1705). L'art des emblèmes. Lyons: Benoist Coral, 1662.
8° (163 x 99mm). Engraved frontispiece by Thourneisen after Blanchet, woodcut vignette on title, 9 engraved plates, 3 engravings in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. (Some light spotting and browning of text.) Contemporary marbled sheep, flat gilt spine with morocco label, marbled endpapers, red edges. Provenance: A.H. Bright (bookplate).FIRST EDITION of 'one of the fundamental books on emblematics'. Brunet III, 29; Landwehr Romanic 513; Praz p. 422.; Sommervogel V, 910.
With one other work in French, Henri Estienne L'art de faire les devises (Paris, 1645; lacks frontispiece), 2 18th-century English works on engraving, and John Hannett Bibliopegia or The Art of Bookbinding (London, 1842). All bound in later morocco or calf.
8° (163 x 99mm). Engraved frontispiece by Thourneisen after Blanchet, woodcut vignette on title, 9 engraved plates, 3 engravings in text, woodcut headpieces and initials. (Some light spotting and browning of text.) Contemporary marbled sheep, flat gilt spine with morocco label, marbled endpapers, red edges. Provenance: A.H. Bright (bookplate).FIRST EDITION of 'one of the fundamental books on emblematics'. Brunet III, 29; Landwehr Romanic 513; Praz p. 422.; Sommervogel V, 910.
With one other work in French, Henri Estienne L'art de faire les devises (Paris, 1645; lacks frontispiece), 2 18th-century English works on engraving, and John Hannett Bibliopegia or The Art of Bookbinding (London, 1842). All bound in later morocco or calf.
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