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This 1636 Paris catalogue by Jacques de Bie describes French royal medals, arranged as numbered plates of circular engraved roundels with Latin legends for a collector and antiquarian readership. The plates show medals of Louis XIII, Charles IX and Henry III in fine line engraving, with allegorical figures, ships, horses and emblems set within ornamental borders and inscriptions that a designer could use for seals, roundel frames or classical emblem motifs.
