MONTFAUCON 1719

Description

 

L’Antiquité expliquée et représentée en figures. Paris: Florentin Delaulne, Hilaire Foucault, Michel Clousier and others, 1719

15 volumes in folio (437 x 290mm.)

First edition of this monumental work, in which the statues, monuments, vases, coins, seals and artefacts of antiquity are classified according to their subject matter. The work was published in an edition of 1800 copies, which apparently sold out within two months