Symbolica Dianae Ephesiae Statua a Clavdio Menetreio. Ceimeliothecæ Barberinæ Præfecto Exposita [Suivi de] Lucae Holstenii epistola ad Franciscum cardinalem Barberinum De fulcri sev veribus Diana Ephesiae simalacro appositis

New edition, after the first, also published in Rome in 1657. The second text is also dated 1688, but not at the same address. A title page for the last part: Io. Petro Bellori notae in numistata tum Ephesia, tum aliarum urbium apibus insignata, without address or place, with a bee as title vignette. In all three parts, the plates are included in the pagination. The two parts following the first were not part of the first edition; they are joined to Mnestrier's text for the first time. The illustration contains 24 plates: 12 plates for the first part, some with 2 figures. 10 plates, mostly medals for the second part. 2 plates for the third part. Superbly engraved on copper, these plates are not signed.

Modern Bradel binding in half cream vellum, smooth spine, black shagreen title-label, antique paper boards, binding signed Goy & Vilaine.

Claude-François Ménestrier was librarian to Cardinal Barberine when he wrote this book on the famous antique statue of Diana of Ephesus (or Artemis). He sought in fact to answer the questions raised by the multiple symbols of the sculpture and the mystery of the cult of Diana. Through the different representations of this Diana of Ephesus, the author puts forward several hypotheses on the significance of the animals that populate the statue, on the multiple breasts, and attempts to define the origin of these symbols... Montfaucon, citing the statue in his great work: L'Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures, will refer to reading Ménestrier's book which he praises, affirming that the author gives the significance of all the symbols, down to the smallest ones, even if according to him, the fragmentary knowledge at our disposal does not allow us to understand perfectly the mysteries of Diana of Ephesus.