Emblems] - HUGO, Herman, S.J. - Les pieux sentimens d’une ame chrestienne (...) Traduction nouvelle avec des figures. Paris, P. de Bats, 1672 (1692 ?), 12mo, cont. calf (rubbed), gilt spine on 5 raised bands (head and tail def.), red sp. edges, [22]-412 pp. (lacking front., prel. quire partly bound at end; paper age-toned, some soiling, blank fore-edge part of title cut out). Good copy.
Extr. rare French version of Hugo’s "Pia desideria" (1624). Ill. with 45 numbered engr. emblems by Monbard. Ref. Daly/Dimler (Jesuit emblem) J.703 (Malibu Getty copy only) = Adams/Rawles/Saunders (French embl.) F.340.5 (same copy). Not in DBS, Landwehr, Praz etc.
Emblems] - HUGO, Herman, S.J. - Les pieux sentimens d’une ame chrestienne (...) Traduction nouvelle avec des figures. Paris, P. de Bats, 1672 (1692 ?), 12mo, cont. calf (rubbed), gilt spine on 5 raised bands (head and tail def.), red sp. edges, [22]-412 pp. (lacking front., prel. quire partly bound at end; paper age-toned, some soiling, blank fore-edge part of title cut out). Good copy.
Extr. rare French version of Hugo’s "Pia desideria" (1624). Ill. with 45 numbered engr. emblems by Monbard. Ref. Daly/Dimler (Jesuit emblem) J.703 (Malibu Getty copy only) = Adams/Rawles/Saunders (French embl.) F.340.5 (same copy). Not in DBS, Landwehr, Praz etc.
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