L'ame amante de son Dieu: representée dans les emblémes de Hermannus Hugo sur ses pieux desirs: & dans ceux d'Othon Vaenius sur l'amour divin: avec des figures nouvelles acompagnées de vers qui en font l'aplication aux dispositions les plus essentielles de la vie interieure. - Hugo, Herman; Veen, Otto van; Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte; Bolswert, Boëce van; Smit, Jan (Added engraved title of 1st pt.:Pia desideria, ou, Les saints desirs de l'ame pieuse, 1717)
Includes errata, last p.
Engraved half title and added t.-p. for 1st pt. Most plates signed by Jan Smit. In the 1st pt. they are enlarged copies of those by Boetius à Bolswert for the original Antwerp ed. of Hugo's Pia desideria, 1624. In the 2nd pt. they are after Veen's ill. for his Amoris divini emblemata, first published Antwerp, 1615. "Autre explication des mêmes emblemes de Vaenius, par le même auteur des poësies précedentes" by Madame J.M.B. de la Mothe Guyon (p. [117]-181); see Landwehr.
Landwehr, J. French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese emblem books,407
Binding: calfskin. Spine and edges of boards tooled in gilt. Page edges sprinkled red & blue.
Keywords: Engravings / Germany / 17th century. / aat; Devotional literature / Germany / 17th century. / aat; Emblem books / Germany / 17th century. / aat; Emblems (allegorical pictures) / Germany / 17th century. / aat