[VIGENERE (Blaise de)]. PHILOSTRATE. Les Images ou Tableaux - Lot 22

[VIGENERE (Blaise de)]. PHILOSTRATE. Les Images ou Tableaux de platte peinture des deux Philostrates sophistes grecs et les statues de Callistrate. Paris, Veuve Abel l'Angelier et veuve Guillemot, 1615. In-folio, second issue of the original illustrated edition whose date has been changed on the title page, illustrated with an engraved title and 68 in-text engravings executed by Léonard Gautier and Thomas de Leu after drawings by Antoine Caron and Jaspar Isaac with epigrams by Artus Thomas Sieur d'Embry. Achevé d'imprimer à la date du 2 janver 1614. Copy set in a contemporary full red morocco binding, the boards double-framed with gilt fillets, cartouches in the spandrels, stamped with the arms of three massacres surmounted by a helmet and surrounded by foliage, 5-ribbed ornate spine, the caissons stamped with the arms. Handwritten inscriptions on the endpapers suggest various possible identifications of the arms, including the Bordais, Guynement, Coëtgonvaz, Rabineau, Cressé families... (binding rubbed, leather cracks and tears at spine ends, inner spine split, stains, text block detached, a few scuffs and stains, last leaf soiled, frontispiece detached and cut short, rare wormholes).