[PICART] Jean-Charles PONCELIN de LA ROCHE-TILHAC. Masterpieces of Antiquity on the Fine Arts, Precious Monuments of the Religion of the Greeks and Romans, of their Sciences, their Laws, their Uses, their Customs, their Superstitions and their Follies, engraved in intaglio by Bernard Picart. Paris, chez l'auteur, Lamy, 1784, 2 volumes in-folio bound in full contemporary rubbed basane, spine ribbed, title page. Illustrated with 81 copper-engraved plates by Bernard Picart, including one plate numbered 3-4; plate 64 is repeated but 63 is missing, and one plate misnumbered 3, placed before 76. Trace of moisture in fine. First edition.

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