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MONTFAUCON (Bernard de)

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MONTFAUCON (Bernard de)

Antiquity explained and represented in figures. Second edition, revised and corrected. Paris, Florentin Delaulne, Michel Clousier, etc., 1722. 10 parts in 5 volumes and 5 volumes of plates, in-folio, marbled basane, decorated spine, lemon and green tomaison title pieces, red edges (Binding at the time).
Famous figurative encyclopaedia of antiquity, by Bernard de Montfaucon (1655-1741), Benedictine of the Congregation of
Saint-Maur.

Copy comprising approximately 573 intaglio engraved plates (out of 977), some of which

unfold.

Large engraved ex-libris by the prelate John Baptist de Terme, Vienna, dated

1778.

2 folios in volume I with loss of letters (pp. 311-314), the false title of volume I is missing. A few wet spots. Rubbing at the binding, split bits, a restored headdress and two others damaged.