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HANCARVILLE, P.-F. Hugues, dit d'] - Monumens de la vie priv…
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588
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HANCARVILLE, P.-F. Hugues, dit d'] - Monumens de la vie priv…
See original version (French)
Estimate €300
Voluntary lot
Description
HANCARVILLE, P.-F. Hugues, dit d'] - Monumens de la vie privée des Douze César, d'après une suite de pierre et médailles, gravées sous leur règne. Rome, Impr. du Vatican, 1786 (circa 1792). In-8, frontispiece, XII, 236 pp, 50 erotic plates in medallion, contemporary full calf, gilt garland on covers, spine ribbed and decorated.
DUTEL A-727. First edition in 1780. The publication of this collection, like that of the Monumens du Culte secret des Dames romaines, is due to the antiquarian P.-F. Hugues, known as d'Hancarville, born in 1718 and died in 1805, who was, in archaeological matters, the collaborator of Sir William Hamilton, English ambassador to Naples. We suspect that P.-F.-Hugues d'Hancarville, of having presented as engravings reproducing antique cameos, plates whose subject he himself had conceived, but to tell the truth, whether or not he had authentic collectors' items as models, he did not imagine anything that the Ancients had not known. (Ens. du même :) Monumens du culte secret des dames romaines, d'après une suite de pierres gravées sous leur règne ; Pour servir de suite à la vie des douze Césars. Rome, Impr. du Vatican, 1790 (c. 1792). Front, (1) f., 16, 98 pp. 50 erotic plates. DUTEL A-734. First edition in 1780. Inversions between the two works probably in order to make two volumes of the same thickness.
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