Description:
Marolles, Michel de (1600-1681) Tableaux du Temple des Muses Representant les Vertus, et les Vices. Paris: [No Printer], 1655.
Folio, second edition, engraved throughout, with engraved architectural title, full-page portraits of Favereau and Marolles, and fifty-seven of fifty-eight engraved plates, lacking plate 34; the plates engraved by Cornelis Bloemaert based on designs mostly by Abraham van Diepenbeeck inspired by Greek mythological subjects, some ink stains, spotting, later parchment, 17 x 11 in.
Estimate $600-800
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