Mythology.- Marolles (Michel de) Tableaux du temple des muses; tirez du cabinet de feu Mr. Favereau...pour representer les Vertus & les Vices, sur les plus illustres Fables de l'Antiquité, first edition, additional engraved pictorial title (this, and letterpress title trimmed and laid down to sheet with some loss at edges), lacking engraved portrait, 57 plates only (of 58) by Bloemaert and others after Abraham Diepenbeek, one with a marginal tear, R1 near closed tear (slight text loss), S1 tear within text and paper repairs to lower edge, Z1 defective at head, some scattered soiling and staining, contemprary calf, leather repair spine foot, lower cover worn, [Brunet III 1443], folio, Paris, Aontoine de Sommaville, 1655.
⁂ First edition of this fine series of plates after Diepenbeek's designs, illustrating Michel de Marolles' fifty-eight adaptations of classical fables.
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