[GOMBERVILLE, Marin Le Roy, Sieur de].- LA | DOCTRINE | DES | MŒVRS. | TIREE | DE LA PHILOSOPHIE | Des Stoïques: | REPRESENTEE EN CENT | TABLEAVX. | ET EXPLIQVEE EN CENT DISCOVRS | por l’instruction de la ieunesse. | AU ROY.- A Paris: Pour Pierre Daret, De l’Imprimerie de Lvys Sevestre. M. DC. XLVI. [1646].- [14], 105 f.: il.; 35 cm.- E. Original edition of a book of moral emblems commissioned by Cardinal Mazarin for the education of the young King Louis XIV, by Marin Le Roy de Gomberville (1600-1674), Parisian poet and writer, one of the 40 founders of the French Academy. The work is composed of two parts which, although with their own title pages, present independent leafing. It includes the following illustrations intaglio engraved by the editor, painter and engraver Pierre Daret (1604-1678): two Venetian titles, an allegory (La vertu au Roy), a portrait of the author (in medallion), another allegory (before the preface), 103 emblematic figures (repeating the illustrations of Otto van Veen's Emblemata Oratiana, from 1607), each of which is accompanied by two poems (in Latin and vernacular) and the respective explanatory text on the opposite page. It also includes several decorative elements alongside the text: four large vignettes, two identical engravings at the end of each part, and several initial capitals, also intaglio engraved. The copy is somewhat handled, with several imperfections, notably some browning and occasional stains. The binding is not contemporary, with a leather spine and slight wear. Tchémerzine p. 454. Brunet, II, col. 1656. Mario Praz, p. 402.