Les emblèmes d'amour divin et humain ensemble. Expliquez par des vers françois. Par un père capucin.

8vo: [2]-118 ff. (age-toned, soiling and some marg. staining, marg. losses and margins repaired).

Black morocco signed Niédrée, spine with raised bands, double gilt fillets on edges, gilt inside dentelles, a.e.g. (rubbing).

Suite of an engr. title and 118 numb. copperplates, after Snijders' "Amoris Divini et Humani effectus", some of them signed "J. Messager excud[it]". Accompanied with Latin motto and French distich; French verses delivering the moral and spiritual meaning of the emblems on the facing page.
Ref. Praz p. 255. - Chatelain 86. - Cp. Landwehr, Romanic, 272-274. - Not in Adams/Rawles/Saunders (Fr. embl. bks).