Emblemes ou Devises chretiennes, ouvrage mêlé de prose & de vers, et enrichi de figures en taille-douce.

12mo : 407-[1] pp. (some marg. soiling, front flyleaf loosening).

Cont. calf, gilt orn. spine on 5 raised bands (sl. rubbed, joints rep. and starting to split), sp. edges. Good copy.

Very rare first edition (2nd 1717) of a French series of emblems based on Philotheus' "Symbola Christiana" (1677). Engr. ills (compl.) : frontisp., device on dedic. page ("Educo altaribus") and 100 circular emblems. Dedicated to the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Woodcut orn. on title. Woodcut head and tail pieces. Title in red & black. Ink ownership entry on title. Bookseller's ticket. Ref. Landwehr (Romanic) 269. - Praz 325. - WorldCat. - Not in Bn-Opale plus, BL. - Cf. McKeown (ed.), The International Emblem (2010), pp. 201-234.