Histoire ecclésiastique.
Histoire ecclésiastique is a French church history printed in Paris in 1738 by Jean Mariette, whose shop sign was the Pillars of Hercules, for a learned clerical and scholarly readership. Its engravings are crisp and formal, with one scene of robed figures and armoured men before tents that shows a designer how to stage a diplomatic encounter in a clear, legible way, and one emblematic tailpiece of a seated Hercules beneath the motto HAEC META LABORUM, useful for classical ornament and heraldic framing.
