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MENESTRIER, Le P. Claude François - Philosophia Imaginum id …
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189
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MENESTRIER, Le P. Claude François - Philosophia Imaginum id …
See original version (French)
Estimate €400
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MENESTRIER, Le P. Claude François - Philosophia Imaginum id est Sylloge Symbolorum amplissima, qua plurima regum, principum, nobilium, foeminarum illustrium, eruditorum, aliorumque virorum in Europa praestantium, quae prostant, summa diligentia sunt congesta methodoque succincta exhibita. Amsterdam and Danzig, Jansson Waesberghe, 1695. In-8, (8) ff, 847 pp, 78 copper-engraved emblems in the text, contemporary ivory vellum with flaps.
ALLUT p. 162. PRAZ 423. LANDWEHR n°55. First Latin edition of the work published in French in 1682 under the title : La Philosophie des images, composée d'un ample recueil de devises, & du jugement de tous les ouvrages qui ont été faits sur cette matière. The first 94 pages contain the judgements of fifty authors who have dealt with symbols. The mottos are classified under 78 headings, each illustrated with an emblem: coelum et astra, sol, aurora et lumen, planetae et constellationes, luna, astra sub figuris cum humanis, ignes erratici, etc. They are given in Latin and English. They are given in Latin and French, followed by a commentary. As Allut points out, this edition has a much richer iconography than the first, which contained only a few woodcuts.
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