BELLINGEN, Fleury de (fl. mid 17th century). L'etymologie ou Explication de proverbes françois. The Hague: Adrian Vlacq, 1656. 3 parts in one volume, small 8° (156 x 86mm). Red morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet, gilt spine-lettering and turn-ins, gilt and marbled edges, later supralibros. Provenance: Comte de Lignerolles (part II of his sale, 5-16 March 1894, lot 2087) -- 'un vieux bibliophile' (ex libris) -- purchased from L. Giraud-Badin, 1936. 'ÉDITION RECHERCHéE'. The second part of the Etymologie first appeared as Les premiers essais de proverbes (The Hague, 1653), and then as Les illustres proverbes historiques (Paris, 1655). Brunet I, 757 & III, 408.
Together with 7 other 12° works: Baltasar Gracian, L'homme de cour. Paris: 1693; Henri, duc de Guise, Les memoires. Cologne: 1669; Royaumond, le Sieur de, L'histoire de Vieux et du Nouveau Testament. Paris: 1680. Engraved illustrations; D[enis] G[odefory], Abregé des Trois Etats. Paris: 1682. Ex libris Maxime de Camp; Claude Fleury, Les Moeurs des Israelites. The Hague: 1682. Ex libris de Lignerolles, no. 2435; Roger de Rabutin, comte de Bussy, La France galante, ou histoires amoureuses de la cour. Cologne: 1695. Engraved plates; and Fenelon, Explication des maximes des saints sur la vie interieure. Paris: 1698. All in later morocco, 2 volumes by Brugalla, the others by Duru, Hardy, Ottmann Duplanil, and Trautz-Bauzonnet. (8)