Bernard de MONTFAUCON
L'antiquité expliquée, et représentée en figures
Florentin Delaulne • Hilaire Foucault • Michel Clousier • Jean-Geoffroy Nyon • Etienne Ganeau • Nicolas Gosselin • Pierre-François Giffard|à Paris 1719-1724|30 x 44 cm|15 Vol. reliés
Florentin Delaulne & Hilaire Foucault & Michel Clousier & Jean-Geoffroy & Nyon & Etienne Ganeau & Nicolas Gosselin & Pierre-François Giffard
Paris 1719-1724 | folio, 30 x 44 cm | 15 volumes bound in full calf
First edition comprising the first 10 volumes published in 1719 and the five volumes of supplements subsequently published in 1724, all complete with plates (see Cohen 731-732).Paris 1719-1724 | folio, 30 x 44 cm | 15 volumes bound in full calf
The illustration, as remarkable as it is abundant, comprises a magnificent frontispiece signed by Sébastien Le Clerc representing the authors of Antiquity in front of the forecourt of a grandiose monument, skillfully put into perspective; a portrait of the dedicatee, Count
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