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Etruschi - David, François-Anne / Hancarville, Pierre François Hughes d'
Antiquites Etrusques, grecques et romaines, 1785
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Paris, chez l'auteur, 1785-1788. In 4th. 267 x 203 mm. First French edition, illustrated with a title page repeated in each volume and 360 tipped-in plates engraved in chalcography by François-Anne David and, for the most part, colored in bistre, binding in half brown leather and cardboard from the 19th century
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VARIABLE AND SOPHISTICATED EDITION.
The plates mainly reproduce antiquities from the personal cabinet of William Hamilton. He was a diplomat and patron in Italy for over thirty-five years and responsible for the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The first edition of the work, in 4 folio volumes, was published in Naples in 1766-1767. Blackmer, n°847 - Cohen, 474 - Brunet, II, 536.
The plates mainly reproduce antiquities from the personal cabinet of William Hamilton. He was a diplomat and patron in Italy for over thirty-five years and responsible for the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii. The first edition of the work, in 4 folio volumes, was published in Naples in 1766-1767. Blackmer, n°847 - Cohen, 474 - Brunet, II, 536.