The Ancient history of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes and Persians, Macedonians, and Grecians [...]. Translated from the French. In ten volumes [...].

10 vol., 12mo (browned, sl. offsetting from the plates, occ. foxing).

Contemp. sprinkled calf, gilt ruled flat spines, red leather title labels, yellow edges (sm. defects). Good set.

Eighth edition of the English transl. of the "Histoire ancienne" (1st ed.: 1730-1738), monumental sum often edited and translated. Illustrated with 23 copperplates by J. & P. Knapton (dated 1749, 1754): 10 front. including the author's portrait, 7 fold. plates (maps, plans of cities, view of the sphinx), 6 pl. (inside of the great pyramid, obelisks, mummies, ruins in Athens, Hannibal at the age of nine). Charles Rollin (1661-1741), distinguished Latinist and Hellenist, historian and professor of French, devoted the second half of his life to an important editorial activity.
Ref. ESTC T136380.