Divers habillemens des anciens grecs et romains

First edition illustrated with 25 plates including the title in a cartouche, and numbered. One copy at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France with 2 plates missing, another at the British Library with 21 plates out of 25.
Contemporary glazed brown half-calf binding. Smooth spine decorated with 5 fleurons. Rubbed black calf title-label. Head worn. Upper joint cracked at head and foot. Rubbing.
"For the benefit of young people who practice drawing & painting, Le Clerc has gathered on 25 small prints the different clothing of the Greeks and Romans, which he engraved in 1706... One notices a noble simplicity which bears the true character of Antiquity." (Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre de Sébastien Le Clerc, by Charles Antoine Jaubert, 1774)

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