Online auction - Lot 345
[Antiquity]
Histoire ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes et des Perses, des Macedoniens, des Grecs.
Paris, wid. Estienne [= Marie-Anne Guiard] & son, 1748
Starting bid: €
80
€ 100 / 150
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14 parts in 13 vol., 8vo; 6 pl. (n.c., sl. browned).
Contemp. mottled sheep, gilt. orn. spines with 5 raised bands (some corners bumped, some joints sl. rubbed).
Later, lesser known, ed. (first: 1730-1738) containing 6 folding pl., like the first ed. Rollin (1661-1741) was professor of rhetoric at the Collège royal, rector of the university of Paris and a member of the Académie royale des inscriptions et médailles.
Ref. Cp. Conlon 30:671 (orig. ed.). - Cp. Brunet IV:1360 (other ed.). - This ed. not in BnF.