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1658 · LV2725 — A Paris: chez Adrien Menier a la Porte Saint-Victor 1658. 1658. 4to. 24 cm. 8 45 3 pp. 72 double-sided plates. Dedication signed: Du Fresne. With a special added engraved title page preceding the plates with the title: Briefve Histoire de l'Institution de toutes les Religions avec leurs habits granez par Odard Fialetti . . . 1658. Each plate has engraved descriptive text on facing page printed on verso of preceding plate. Contemporary red turkey morocco gilt-stamping and spine; neat restoration to spine corner bumped. Stamp on title and rear: Le Mrs. Marquis de Courtanvaux Le Tellier Marquis de Courtanvaux Francois-Cesar 1718-1781. CHOICE COPY IN A BEAUTIFUL CONTEMPORARY BINDING. Rare. First printing of an important book showing 72 standard costumes worn for 72 religious orders mostly Italian orders seventeenth century. There is a section devoted to the east and one plate to an order in India. Odoardo Fialetti whose real name was Edouard Viallet provided the remarkable engravings. The dedicatory epistle is addressed to Pierre de La Porte first valet de chambre of Louis XIV. / Trichet du Fresne described as erudite he took his education at the College de Guyenne Paris. While working for the brother of Louis XIII Gaston d'Orleans 1608-60 he acquired works of art on buying excursions. He began his career as a bookseller before becoming corrector at the newly established Imprimerie du Roi in 1640. In 1651 he published Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting Trattato della pittura which had circulated in manuscript form. His Trattato contained an early biography of Leonardo and Alberti and contained a list of books at the end forming the first annotated bibliography of art literature Dictionary of Art Historians. After the death of Naude he was appointed librarian of Queen Christina of Sweden. His own library comprised about 10000 volumes. Colbert acquired his manuscripts from his widow Francoise Duvivier for the Royal Library for 27700 livres. The printed books were bought by Nicolas Fouquet after whose disgrace and imprisonment they were confiscated and incorporated into the Royal Library in 1665. When in 1651 the Swedish Queen abdicated and emigrated to Italy Trichet followed her to Rome. REFERENCES: Blechet p.59; Pollard & Ehrman Table XXV; Taylor p. 265ff. See: Smith Paul J. "COGNITION IN EMBLEMATIC FABLE BOOKS: AEGIDIUS SADELER'S THEATRUM MORUM 1608 AND ITS RECEPTION IN FRANCE 1659–1743" Within: Cognition and the Book: Typologies of Formal Organisation of Knowledge in the Printed Book of the Early Modern Period; Series: Intersections Volume: 4. 2005. chez Adrien Menier, a la Porte Saint-Victor, 1658. unknown