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Emblemata.- Gomberville (Marin Le Roy,

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Sieur de) La Doctrine des Moeurs, 2 parts in 1, first edition, engraved pictorial titles, dedication with vignette, portrait, 103 half-page emblematic illustrations, woodcut decorative initials, K2 very small repair near head, T1 repaired tears within text and illustrations, loss of a few letters verso, repaired tear to foot of 2Z1&2, occasional marginal water-staining, a few very small stains, bookplate of Samuel Treat Armstrong, contemporary calf, rebacked and repaired, rubbed, [Landwehr, Romanic, 476; Praz pp.402-403], folio, Paris, pour P.Daret de l'Imprimerie de L. Sevestre, 1646.

***The emblems are taken from Otto Vaenius' Q.Horatii Flacci Emblemata..

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