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301
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:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Lettres. Nouvelle édition, revue (...) par Goujon (de la Somme).
Paris, Goujon fils, 1801-1803, 9 vol. (sur 12), in-8, basane racinée de l’époque, dos lisses ornés
dorés (étiq. de papier en queue), étiq. de cuir rouge, tr. jaspées. Bon ex. et joli ensemble. Traduction
juxtalinéaire. Série incomplète, contenant: Lettres à Atticus trad. par l’abbé Mongault, t. I, IV & VI
(sur 6). - Lettres familières trad. par l’abbé Prévost, 5 vol. (complet). - Lettres à M. Brutus et de M.
Brutus à Cicéron trad. par l’abbé Prévost, 1 vol. (complet). (10 vol., provenance: famille princière
belge)
1303
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MONTFAUCON, Bernard de, O.S.B.
- L’antiquité expliquée et représentée en
figures. Paris, F. Delaulne, H. Foucault, M. Clousier a.o., 1719 (suppl. 1724), 15 vol., folio, cont.
mottled calf (some corners sl. bumped and rubbed), covers with gilt ruled borders (rubbed), gilt
orn. spines on 6 raised bands (joints splitting, some front covers loosening), gilt brown leather title
labels, [8]-civ-194, [4]-195/452, [2]-267-[1 bl.], [4]-268/472-[2 bl.], [2]-198, [4]-201/390, [2]-174-
[2], [4]-177/316, 170, [4]-173/437-[1 bl.], [2]-xxxv-[1]-258, [2]-viii-248, [2]-viii-252-[4], [2]-vi-
173-[1 bl/-2], [2]-viii-240 pp. (minor spotting, some double p. pl. cut short, some faint waterstaining
in folds of various vols.). Good, large paper set.
€ 1000/1500
First edition
of this work on classical archaeology by B. de Montfaucon (1655-1741), Benedictine
of the Congregation of Saint-Maur and one of the founders of modern archaeology. From 1698 to
1701 he lived in Rome. He established his reputation with this 15-volume work published between
1719 and 1724. It contains “Les Dieux des Grecs & des Romains” (pt I/a), “Les Heros parvenus à
la Divinité” (part I/b), “Le Culte des Grecs & des Romains” (pt II/a), “La religion des Egyptiens,
des Arabes, des Syriens, des Perses (...)” (pt II/b), “Les habits, les meubles, les vases, les monoyes,
les poids (...)” (pt III/a), “Les bains, les mariages, les grands & les petits jeux, les pompes” (pt
III/b), “La guerre, les voitures, les grands chemins, les ponts, les aqueducs, la navigation” (pt
IV/a), “Les chemins publics, les aqueducs, & la navigations” (pt IV/b), “Les funerailles, les lampes,
les supplices” (pt V/a), “Les funerailles des nations barbares, les lampes, les supplices” (pt V/b).
Complete with the 5 supplementary vol. (Paris, 1724). It is a vast pictorial encyclopedia with
copious engravings of the gods, heroes, religious customs, architecture, military practices, domestic
habits, and funerary rites of the ancient world.
Engr. ills
: 10 title-vign., portrait by J. Audran after
N. Largillière, 5 headpieces and
+/- 1412 (!) plates of which 268 double page
(numbering not
always logical: some numbers are lacking, others are 2 or 3 times present). Titles in red & black.
Bookpl. Comte de Kerckhove de Denterghem.
Ref.
Cohen 731. Conlon 19:540 (= BL, BN, NUC).
Cicognara 2493. Cat. of the Avery Arch. Libr. 680-681. Cp. Printing and the Mind of Man 175.
1304
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NEWTON, Isaac
- The chronology of ancient kingdoms amended, to which is
prefix’d, a Short chronicle from the first memory of things in Europe, to the conquest of Persia by
Alexander the Great. London, Tonson e.a., 1728, 4to, cont. panelled calf (worn, covers loose), xiv-
[2]-376 pp. (a few stains). Good copy.
€ 120/200
1st ed.
of Newton’s chronology of Antiquity. Ill. with
3 folding engr. plates
.
Ref.
Wallis 309. ESTC
T30721.
Joined
: [
Valerius Maximus
] - Romae antiquae descriptio. A view of the religion, laws, customs,
manners, and dispositions of the Ancient Romans. London, Speed, 1678, 8vo, cont. calf (rebacked),
[12]-478 pp., engr. front. Signet copy.
Ref.
ESTC R22311. Wing V-34. -
Bell, Thomas -
Roma
restituta, sive Antiquitatum Romanarum compendium absolutum. Amst., Wolters, 1700, 12mo,
cont. boards, [24]-250-[14] pp. Uncut (partly unopened) copy. -
An universal history
(...) vol. XX.
London, Osborn e.a., 1748, 8vo, cont. sheep, [2]-555-[1] pp. (4 vol.)
1305
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VELLEIUS PATERCULUS, Caius
- Historiae Romanae voluminibus duobus. Cum
integris scholiis, notis, variis lectionibus (...) curante [Pieter Burman]. Leiden, S. Luchtmans, 1719,
8vo, cont. vellum, blind rules and gilt arms on covers (paper labels pasted on upper cover and
spine), gilt ruled flat spine, brown leather label, spr. edges, [40]-748-[118] pp. (front. brown. with
marg. tear, a few pp. dog-eared). Good copy.
€ 100/150