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Descrizione : [Antiquity] - MONTFAUCON, Bernard de, O.S.B. - L'antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures. Paris, F. Delaulne, H. Foucault, M. Clousier a.o., 1719, 5 parts in 9 (of 15) vol., folio, contemp. mottled calf (corners sl. bumped), gilt orn. spines on 6 raised bands (sm. def., joints sl. rubbed), gilt red leather title labels, gilt inner dentelles, [8]-civ-194, [4]-pp. 195/452, [2]-267-[1 bl.], [4]- pp. 269/472-[2 bl.], [2]-198, [2]- pp. 199/390, [2]-174-[2]-pp. 177/316, [2]-168, pp. 169/437-[1 bl.] pp. (minor spotting, III: hole in headpiece p. 269, V: right margins sl. staining, VI: sm. hole in pl. 184, VII: tear of +/- 10 cm in pl. 72 & 81, part 4 bound in 1 vol.). Good, large paper set. 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). Without 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, 976 (of 977) plates (of which 144 double-page, 1 unnumb. pl. in part 3 lacking ?). Titles printed in red & black. Libr. stamps and armorial bookpl. removed. Stamp Aug. Duchesne Rheims. 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.
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