Paris, chez Florentin Delaulne, Étienne Ganeau et al., 1722. In 2°, 428 x 275 mm. Nearly 1400 copperplate engravings for which more than forty engravers were engaged, out of text: title page by Sébastien Le Clerc, portrait of the dedicatee, the Maréchal d'Estrées, by Jean Audran by Nicolas de Largillière, 1394 plates including 3 folded and 242 double page, slight redness. WONDERFUL COEVA BINDING IN SPONGED CALFSKIN, with spine with 7 raised bands enclosing gilt-decorated compartments, title on the spine in gilt letters on a red label, in the center of the plates, the splendid coat of arms of Manuel Pinto de Fonseca (1681-1773), Portuguese nobleman, Grand Master of the Order of Malta from 1741 until his death.
Specialist Notes
AN ENCYCLOPAEDIC AMBITION AND AN IMPORTANT STEP IN THE SCIENTIFIC DEVELOPMENT OF HISTORICAL AND ARTISTIC CURIOSITY. L'Antiquité deals with the ancient Greco-Latin civilization, but also with some pre-classical cultures that flourished in Egypt, Asia (India, China), North Africa (Cyrenaica, etc.) or Europe (Celtic peoples), as well as the productions of the early Christians up to the reign of Theodosius. "LE PLUS GRAND MUSÉE DE PAPIER JAMAIS PUBLIÉ À L'ÉPOQUE": «...jamais auparavant aucun ouvrage n'avait présenté un aussi grand nombre d'œuvres d'art, Accompanied by explication texts. Les nombreux objets représentaient les civilizations antiques sous toutes leurs facettes et semblaient offerr une immédiate image du passé, telle que jamais la science n'en avait livré jusque là [...]. L'originalité de l'œuvre tient à la fois à ses dimensions et à la diversité des civilizations prises en compte, mais aussi au fait que stelle-ci sont étudiées pour la première fois au travers de leurs œuvres d'art, et non de leurs écrits » (Élisabeth Décultot, dir., Musées de papier, Paris, Louvre Éditions et Gourcuff Gradenigo, 2010, p. 57).
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