EMBLEMATA - Montenay, Georgette de. Emblematum christianorum centuria, cum eorundem latina interpretatione. Cent emblemes chrestiens. With gest. portrait and 100 emblemat. Engravings by Pierre Woeiriot. Zurich, Ch. Froschauer [Lyon, Jean Marcorelle], 1584. 4°. [8], 100, [8] ll. (d.l.w.). Half vellum binding circa 1900 with engraved title on spine. VD16 M 6244 - Adams M 1715 - Vischer C 1035 - Landwehr German 443 - Landwehr Romanic 530 - Praz 431. - First Latin edition. - First published in Lyon 1567-1571, underwent several translations. The first Protestant emblem book "and the only emblem book written in any language by a woman (Larsen/ Winn, Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women, p. 125). - Georgette de Montenay was long thought by scholars to be a lady-in-waiting to the Queen of Navarre, especially since the work is dedicated to Jeanne d'Albret. Today, she is seen more at a distance from the court, not least because of her marriage to the Catholic Guyon du Gout. The engravings by the Lorraine court artist Pierre Woeiriot for the Lyon first edition, whose plates were also used for the present translation, are besides the earliest emblems in this technique at all. - Somewhat browned, in the margins throughout somewhat stronger, partly slightly foxed resp. fingerstained. The fine engravings in strong impressions. - Signed dedication of the 1980s on endpaper (in pencil).