Le Theatre des Bons Engins 1539 by Guillaume de la Perriere - 1973

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Singapore.: NUS Press.. 2014.. Black and white photographic illustrations and diagrams, xxvii + 261pp, glossary, bibliography, index, paperback. "Hidden at the margins of Burmese Buddhism and culture, the cults of the weikzaweikza in relation to the Vipassana insight meditation movement and conventional Buddhist practices, as well as the contemporary rise of Buddhist fundamentalism. Featuring research based on fieldwork only possible in recent years, paired with reflective essays by senior Buddhist studies scholars, this book situates the weikza cult in relation to broader Buddhist and Southeast Asian contexts, as the Burmese expressions of the weikza cults themselves." (Publisher's description). .

1561. LA PERRIÈRE, Guillaume de. Le Theatre des bons engins, Auquel sont continuz cent Emblemes moraux. 56 ff., (signatures A-G8 with the last blank), containing 100 woodcut emblems, each with dizain by La Perrière. 16 mo, 120 x 75 mm., bound in old stiff vellum. Lyon: Jean de Tournes, 1561. La Perrière's Theatre des bons engins is the earliest, and probably the most popular and influential French emblem book. The woodcut illustrations depict fishing, bird catching, chess playing, card playing, oil painting and two scenes of court tennis, as well as symbolic, allegorical and emblematic imagery often incorporating mythological figures and animals. The editions published by Jean de Tournes in Lyons in 1545 and thereafter contain newly designed woodcuts and the addition of moralizing titles, it is the model that was followed in both the subsequent Dutch and English versions of the Theatre as well as other in emblem books. Guillaume de la Perrière (1499-1565), a… Read More

Lyon, Macé Bonhomme, 1553.
8vo [157 x 100 mm] of (13) ll. and 100 numbered ll., title slightly shorter at the bottom, vignettes 90 and 91 partially colored in blue.
Brown morocco, double frame of blind-stamped fillets with gilt fleurons in the corners and decoration at the centre, spine ribbed and decorated with gilt fleurons, inner gilt fillet border, gilt edges. Binding signed by Capé.
First edition and first issue of this very beautiful illustrated collection of emblems.
Adams L-172 ; Brunet, III, 830 ; Rothschild, V, 3328 ; Brun, 232 ; Vinet 841 ; Landwehr, Romanic, 454.
Dedicated to Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendomois to whom 2 epistles are addressed, this book of 'crazy wisdom' is preceded by a couplet and a quatrain by Bernardo Poggio, a sonnet by Guillaume de Caynet and a decima by Jacques de Maulevant.
It was the second illustrated work of its kind composed by this poet and historian from Toulouse, after 'Le Théâtre des bons engins' published in 1539.
The present collection is… Read More