L'etymologie
Subtitle: ou, Explication des proverbes françois, divisee en trois livres par chapitres en forme de dialogue. Avec vne table de tous les proverbes contenus en ce traicté
By: Par Fleury de Bellingen
Publisher: A. Vlacq
Published: 1656
Place of publication: La Haye
Language: fre
Number of pages: 363
Subjects: French Proverbs
Notes: First published 1653 under title: Premiers essais de proverbes.

Errata: p. [382].

Pages 88, 308 misnumbered S8, 208.

Book 2 is a revised edition of his Les premiers essays des proverbes (1653). According to Brunet, books 1 & 3 of this text were combined with David's version of book 2 (Les illustres proverbes historiques (1655)) and published by Pepingué as Les illustres proverbes nouveaux et historiques (Paris, 1665).

Inserted at front is an added t.-p. in ms.