Lot n° 724
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5000 - 7000
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MONTFAUCON (Bernard de)
Antiquity... - Lot 724 - Briscadieu
Superb plates
MONTFAUCON (Bernard de)
Antiquity explained and represented in figures. Paris, Delaulne, Foucault, Clousier, Nyon, Ganeau, Gosselin, Giffart; 1719-24. Frontispiece by LARGILLIERE. Very numerous plates, including double ones. Volume I-1/ Gods of the Greeks and Romans - TI-2/ Heroes who reached divinity - TII-1/ The cult of the Greeks and Romans - TII-2/ The religion of the Egyptians, Arabs, Syrians, Persians, Scythians, Germans, Gauls, TIII-1/ Clothes, furniture, vases, money, weights, measures of the Greeks, Romans & other nations - TIII-2/ Baths, weddings, great and small games, pomp, hunting, fishing, arts, &c. - TIV-1/ War, carriages, highways, bridges, aqueducts, navigation - TIV-2/ Public roads, aqueducts, navigation - TV-1/ Funerals, lamps, torments - TV-2/ The funerals of the barbarian nations, lamps, torments, etc - TI suppl.The gods of the Greeks and Romans - TII suppl. / The worship of the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians and Gauls - TIII suppl. / Clothes and customs of life - TIV suppl. / War, bridges, aqueducts, navigation, lighthouses & octagonal towers - TV suppl. / Funerals.
15 volumes in folio (5 volumes in 10 parts and 5 volumes of supplements) : 3f, C, 194pp. (plates I to CXXIII plus 3 bis I, LXXII and CXXII) / 2f, 193-452pp. (plates CXXIII to CCXXIV plus 1 bis CXLV) / 1f, 267pp. (plates I to CIV) / 268-472pp. (plates CV to CXCV) / 1f. 198pp. (plates I to CXXI plus 1 bis XCVII) / 1f. 199-390pp. (plates CXXII to CXCVII) / 1f, 174pp. (plates I to CXIII plus VIIbis, CVIII bis, ter and quart) / 1f, 175-316pp. (plates CXIV to CXLVI) / 1f, 170pp. (plates I to CXXXI) / 1f. 171-437pp. (CXXXII to CCIV) / 2f. 258pp. (plates I to LXXXVIII plus 12 bis, II, XVIII, XIX, XX, XXII, XXXVII, XLIV, XLVIII, XLIX, LIII, LIX, LXVII) / 1f, VIII, 248pp (plates I to LXI plus 12 bis, I, XVI, XXIX, XXXII, XXXIII, XXXVII, XLIII, XLIV, L, LI, LII, LIX, 4 ter, XXXIII, LI, LII, LIX, and 2 quart, LIX) / 1f, VIII, 252pp (plates I to LXXXIV, plus 10 bis, IV, V, IX, XI, XXI, L, LXIII, LXIV, LXVII, LXIX, 1 ter, XI) / 1f, VI, 173pp (plates I to LX, missing plate XII, plus 7 bis, V, XI, XII, XIII, XLI, XLIX, LI) / 1f, VIII, (1), 239pp. (plates I to LXXIII, plus 3 bis, II, XII, XXIX). That is to say a total of about 1433 plates out of text of which a part is double-page. Overall in very good condition, a few small light rings in the outer margin of a few leaves only, small scattered light spotting in some volumes.
For the 5 volumes in 10 volumes: contemporary brown calf with Duseuil mosaics in 2 tones of fawn leather, gilt filleting, lace framing the boards, ornamented spines, red title-pieces, usual rubbing, a few spines cracked, gilt roulette on the edges, corners dull, marbled edges - For the 5 volumes of supplements: contemporary marbled fawn calf, spine ribbed and decorated, red title-pieces, cold fillet framing the boards, gilt roulette on the edges, red spotted edges. A good copy.
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