L'antiquité expliquée, et représentée en figures [...] [- Seconde édition, revue et corrigée].

6 (of 15) vol., folio; 472 pl. (text n.c.; some sl. foxing, some pl. or ff. sl. browned, marg. damp stain to vol. V-pt. II).

Contemp. marbled calf, gilt-orn. spines with raised bands, red edges (except 2 vol. with marbled edges) (some parts repaired, staining to vol. II pt. I & II). Good wide-margined copy.

First edition for the 3 first vol., 2nd ed. for the 3 last vol. of this work on classical archaeology. Copy ill. with 472 pl., some on double-pages or folding, 2 headpieces and title-vignettes. This set contains "Culte des grecs, romains et autres nations (vol. II, pt. I), "La religion des Egyptiens, des Arabes, des Syriens, des Perses [...]" (vol. II, pt. II), "Les habits, les meubles, les vases, les monoyes, les poids [...]" (vol. III, pt. I), "Les bains, les mariages, les grands & les petits jeux, les pompes" (vol. III, pt. II), "Les chemins publics, les aqueducs, & la navigation" (vol. IV, pt. II) and "Les funerailles des nations barbares, les lampes, les supplices" (vol. V, pt. II).
Ref. Cohen 731. - Cicognara 2493. - Cat. of the Avery Arch. Libr. 680-681. - Cp. Printing and the Mind of Man 175.