[Rarebooks] FS: Drouet de Mauperty's Emblem Book w/45 plates. Paris: 1758

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(EMBLEM BOOKS) [Drouet de Maupertuy, Jean Baptiste]. SENTIMENS D'UN CHRETIEN TOUCHE D'UN VERITABLE AMOUR DE DIEU, Tires de Divers Passages de l'Eriture Sainte, et Represents par Quarante-Six Figures en Taille-Douce. Par un Solitaire de Sept-Fonts. Septieme Edition. Paris: Chez Jean-Baptiste Garnier. 1758. Sm. 12mo. 92,(4)pp. Added copper engraved title (from the 4th edition, dated 1739), plus 45 copper engraved plates (the first plate is #1-2). Orig. mottled calf, gilt spine. Bookseller P. Gauvry's printed label on front pastedown. A pretty copy.             $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Christian (Biblical) emblematic illustrations, each within elaborate engraved borders, and with an engraved Bible verse in Latin. OCLC  records a number of editions between 1702 and 1758.  Not recorded in any of the standard emblem book reference works.

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