Iconologie: ou, Nouvelle Explication de Plusieurs Images, Emblemes, & Autres Figures Hyerogliphiques des Vertus, Des Vices, Des Arts, Des Sciences, Des Causes Naturelles, Des Humeurs Differentes, Des Passions Humaines, & C. Divisee en Deux Parties
Paris: Chez Lavrent d'Hovry, sur le Quay des Augustins, à l'Image saint Iean, 1681 (1677). Hardcover. Missing covers, marble illustrated end pages, two volumes/parts in one. Volume 1 has a bw illustrated title page, (22) 257 pp. with several bw illustrations. Volume 2 has a bw illustrated title page, 259 pp, illustrated throughout in bw. As is (needs rebound, age toning to block and pages as expected with age but text and illustrations are otherwise clear). Item #180631
Text is in French. Both parts are bound together with their own title pages. The beginning unnumbered pages include a preface, a table of contents for part one, and a table of contents for part two. Part one was published in 1681, part two in 1677. Title translates to: Iconology: or, New explanation of several images, emblems, & other hyerogliphic figures of virtues, vices, arts, sciences, natural causes, different moods, human passions, & c. Divided into two parts. Taken from research and figures of Cesar Ripa, moralized by J. Baudouin of the Académie Francoise.
OCLC: 3130670
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