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68 3364 Emblemata Le Roy sieur De Gomberville 68/3364 [Emblemata]. Le Roy, sieur De Gomberville. La doctrine des moeurs, tiree de la philosophie des Stoiques; representee en cent tableaux. et expliquée en cent discours pour l'instruction de la ieunesse. Paris, L. Sevestre for P. Daret, 1646, (16),105 lvs., engr. frontisp., title-vignette, dedication, 2 divisional titles and 1 portrait, vignettes, 103 large engr. emblems, modern gilt vellum, folio. - Poor copy: numerous leaves w. pen/ pencil; scribbling in margins; partly (badly) waterstained; several leaves (badly) dam. (incl. frontisp.); owner's stamp and entry on title-p. Sold w.a.f. = Praz p.402; Landwehr, Romanic emblem books 476 (calls for 2 more prel. textpages and 2 portraits). Our copy with a sonnet on verso of the other portrait, not mentioned by Landwehr. The emblems after Vaenius, Emblemata Horatiania.