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[MILLOT (Cl.-Fr.-X., abbé)]. [Abrégé de l'Histoire romaine] [Paris], [Nyon l'aîné & fils], [1789]. In-4 half-basane, smooth mute spine. Suite of engravings only (without text): frontispiece by J.B. Piauger, and 48 engraved plates after Saint-Aubin, Gravelot, Eisen. "The figures, most of which bear the date 1760, 1761 and 1762, are quite beautiful. Several are thought to have been engraved by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin himself, although none are signed by him. In the preface, it is stated that this abridgement is by Abbé Millot, and that the publisher bought the plates that had been made for the Spectacle de Vhistoire romaine, by André Etienne de Prétot. Reprinted in 1796 and 1805; but the figures are much less beautiful." Cohen, 1.

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[MILLOT (Cl.-Fr.-X., abbé)]. [Abrégé de l'Histoire romaine] [Paris], [Nyon l'aîné & fils], [1789]. In-4 half-basane, smooth mute spine. Suite of engravings only (without text): frontispiece by J.B. Piauger, and 48 engraved plates after Saint-Aubin, Gravelot, Eisen. "The figures, most of which bear the date 1760, 1761 and 1762, are quite beautiful. Several are thought to have been engraved by Gabriel de Saint-Aubin himself, although none are signed by him. In the preface, it is stated that this abridgement is by Abbé Millot, and that the publisher bought the plates that had been made for the Spectacle de Vhistoire romaine, by André Etienne de Prétot. Reprinted in 1796 and 1805; but the figures are much less beautiful." Cohen, 1.

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