Les images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates sophistes grecs et les statues de Callistrate. Mis en françois par Blaise de Vigenere [...]. Reveus et corrigez sur l'original par un docte personnage de ce temps en langue grecque et représentez en taille douce en cette nouvelle édition [...].

Folio: [18, engr. title incl.]-921-[47] pp. (pp. 605/608 lacking, defects, title underlaid, tears, some strengthened, marg. dampstains...).

Cont. sheep, orn. spine on raised bands with gilt roll-stamps (def., rubbed).

Fascinating hermetic discussion of classical mythology. "Blaise de Vigenere designed an "antique gallery" of 65 textual-pictorial enigmas enclosing all the world's arcana. He founded a dialogue, a secret mode of plastic speech, that sought to "transmit to future centuries techniques and knowledge that are falling into oblivion, of which he may be one of the last keepers" (Conley, 1997). Engr. ills : elaborate title & 68 pl. by L. Gaultier after A. Caron. Ref. Landwehr, Romanic, n° 586. - Chatelain, p. 140 n° 66. - Arbour 7274. - BN Paris (1). - Not in Goldsmith (BL London).