Les emblemes d'amovr divin et hvmain ensemble.
Subtitle: Expliquez par des vers françois
By: Par un Pere Capucin
Contributors: Messager, Jean, d. 1649, engraver; Mariette, Pierre, 1603-1657, engraver
Publisher: Chez Pierre Mariette ruë S Iacques à l'Esperance.
Published: 1640
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Bible -- Picture Bibles; Emblems; Love in art
Other titles: Amoris divina et humani antipathia; Emblesmes sacres avec leurs explicatins nouvelles
Notes: Complete copy is presumably comprised of engr. t-p. & 119 copper engravings, the last unnumbered; KU-S copy lacks plates 2,17,25,36,37,66. Emblems have Latin titles &/or Bible verses & 2-line French verses; many have engr. imprint of Messager who was succeeded by Mariette in 1637. Apparently related to, öi.öa., Amoris divina et humana antipathia (a predecessor) & Emblesmes sacres avec leurs explications nouvelles (a successor)

Bound red morocco with marbled endpapers, all edges gilt

Funck, M. Livre belge

Praz, M. Studies (2d ed.), p.254

Hoe, R. Catalogue of emblems, 87

Special Collection copy lacking plate 115, with previous owner's name on front fly leaf, book dealer's description tipped in on lower endpaper