Author: Chertablon de la Vigne
Title: La Manière de se bien préparer à la Mort Par des considerations sur la Cene, la Passion, & la Mort de Jesu-Christ, Avec de trés belles Estampes Emblematiques.
Description: Anvers, George Gallet, 1700. Full leather binding with richly gilt spine on five raised bands and with gilt red title-lable, (IV blank), 63+1pp. + 40 full page emblematical engravings. Ca. 25 x 19,5 cm.First French edition; titlepage in red and black; 40 (1-39+C; frontispiece (=A) and plate B missing?) very clear engravings by Romeyn de Hooghe. Bookplate pasted on the verso of the frontcover; spine and covers along margins a bit damaged; manuscriptual text on first blank page; otherwise a good copy. Cohen/de Ricci 232; Praz 350; Funck pp.350; Landwehr - Romeyn de Hooghe as bookillustrator nr. 84; Dansen met de dood, 2000, nr. 42 (p. 115).

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