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DAVID (François-Anne); MARECHAL (Sylvain). Les antiquités d'Herculanum, avec leurs explications en françois. A Paris, chez David, graveur, 1780-1797. 11 vol. in-4, period fawn raciné calf, spine with 5 nerves, red or fawn title-piece and green or brown tomaison, caissons decorated with small gilded irons, gilded roulette on the boards, coupes and chasses, marbled edges (ordinary rubbing, dull corners and head-pieces, epidermis on q. boards, small marginal defects, q. browned plates, foxing affecting q. plates). A fine copy of this famous series by the engraver F.-A. David (c. 1748-1824), with text by Sylvain Maréchal. The illustration comprises 828 engraved plates, including 11 titles and 7 faux-titres. A total of 810 illustration plates featuring over 1,300 figures based on paintings, sculptures, decorations and furniture from Antiquity. Twenty or so "priapic" plates are found at the end of volume 7. Brunet mentions a 12th and final volume published in 1803, which does not appear in this copy. (Brunet II, 536).

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DAVID (François-Anne); MARECHAL (Sylvain). Les antiquités d'Herculanum, avec leurs explications en françois. A Paris, chez David, graveur, 1780-1797. 11 vol. in-4, period fawn raciné calf, spine with 5 nerves, red or fawn title-piece and green or brown tomaison, caissons decorated with small gilded irons, gilded roulette on the boards, coupes and chasses, marbled edges (ordinary rubbing, dull corners and head-pieces, epidermis on q. boards, small marginal defects, q. browned plates, foxing affecting q. plates). A fine copy of this famous series by the engraver F.-A. David (c. 1748-1824), with text by Sylvain Maréchal. The illustration comprises 828 engraved plates, including 11 titles and 7 faux-titres. A total of 810 illustration plates featuring over 1,300 figures based on paintings, sculptures, decorations and furniture from Antiquity. Twenty or so "priapic" plates are found at the end of volume 7. Brunet mentions a 12th and final volume published in 1803, which does not appear in this copy. (Brunet II, 536).

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