MONTFAUCON (Bernard de). - L'Antiquité expliquée, et représe - Lot 34

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MONTFAUCON (Bernard de). - L'Antiquité expliquée, et représe - Lot 34
MONTFAUCON (Bernard de). - L'Antiquité expliquée, et représentée en figures (5 volumes in 10 vols.), --?Supplement au livre de l'Antiquité expliquée [...] (5?vol.). At Paris, Chez Delaulne, Foucault, Clousier, Nyon, Ganeau, Gosselin & Giffart, 1719 & 1724. Together 15 volumes in-folio, calf (or basane for the supplement), triple gilt fillet framing the boards, ornate ribbed spine, red morocco title-pieces, gilt edges (period binding). A frontispiece after Sébastien Le CLERC, a portrait of the Comte d'Estrées, to whom the work is dedicated, engraved by AUDRAN after LARGILLIÈRE, headband with the arms of the dedicatee and 1?397 plates engraved in intaglio, some of them double or folded. - Volume I: - The Gods of the Greeks & Romans [...] The Gods of the first, second & third rank, according to the order of time. -- The Heroes reached divinity. - Volume II: - The Cult of the Greeks & Romans. The Religion of the Egyptians, Arabs, Syrians, Persians, Scythians, Germans, Gauls, Spaniards, and Carthaginians. - Volume III: - The Uses of Life [...] The Clothes, Furniture, Vessels, Money, Weights, Measures, of the Greeks, Romans, & other Nations. The baths, marriages, great and small games, pomp, hunting, fishing, the arts, &c. - Volume IV: - War, carriages, highways, bridges, aqueducts, navigation. -- The public roads, aqueducts, & navigation. - Volume V: - Funerals, lamps, torments &c [...] The Funerals of the Greeks & Romans. -- The Funerals of the Barbarian Nations, Lamps, Tortures &c. From the library of Richard Warburton, with bookplate. A GOOD EXAMPLE, despite some spotting on some boards; spotting in volume II. Cohen, 731-732.
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