[Rarebooks] FS: Lovely Emblem Book with 103 engraved plates, 1726

[Charles Agvent]

[GOMBERVILLE (Marin le Roy, Sieur de)] (AUBIN, Penelope). [THE DOCTRINE 
OF MORTALITY, OR A VIEW OF HUMAN LIFE]. MORAL VIRTUE DELINEATED. 
[London]: [J. Darby, A. Betteswort &c], [1726]. Second Edition. Tall 
Folio (8-3/4" x 14-1/2") bound in full calf neatly rebacked. Two parts 
in one volume, lacking the printed title page, as seems often to be the 
case. Text in French and English. Translated by Thomas Manington Gibbs. 
Illustrated with two engraved title pages, a frontispiece, a portrait, 
and 103 engraved plates, all nearly full page, along with engraved head- 
and tail-pieces. Neat contemporary ink inscription to first title, very 
small worm tracks to upper corner of about half of the pages. Lovely 
plates, very clean. Near Fine. (#013796)        $2,500.00

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