Le triomphe de la religion sous Louis Le Grand

First edition illustrated with an allegorical frontispiece and 22 large in-text figures unsigned, a title headpiece and an initial letter.
Contemporary full brown sheep binding. Decorated raised-band spine. Red morocco title label. Split headcaps. Lacks to joints. Beginning of a narrow crack to upper joint at head and tail. 2 corners slightly bumped. Scuffing to boards. Lacking endpapers before frontispiece and at end.
This emblem book was written to celebrate the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). (Landwehr, J. Romantic emblem books, 465.) It consists of Latin poems with French translation and allegorical devices illustrating the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and the triumph of true religion, as well as devices on the rising sun. Each device contains an emblematic figure.