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several old books sitting on top of each other on a tablesix old books are stacked on top of each other on a white surfacean old book with a picture of a man holding a snakean open book sitting on top of a table next to a stack of booksan open book with a picture of a man and a woman on itan old book with pictures of people in itan open book with a picture of a man and a woman on ita book open to a page with drawings of animals on ita book with a picture of a man and a woman on itan open book on a white surface with a blue borderan old book with a drawing of a woman holding a birdan open book with a drawing of a circle on it
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79 - [HERCULANEUM]. MARÉCHAL (P. Sylvain).
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Estimate €600 - €800
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[HERCULANEUM]. MARÉCHAL (P. Sylvain). ANTIQUITIES OF HERCULANEUM, or the finest ancient paintings, and the marbles, bronzes, furniture, etc. etc. found in the excavations at Herculaneum, Stabiae and Pompeii, engraved by F. A. David, with explanations by P. S. Maréchal. Paris: Published by the author, F. A. David, 1780. Nine quarto volumes in marbled fawn calfskin, with gilt scroll decoration on the covers, plain spine divided by scrolls and small gilt garlands, title and volume number labels in red and green morocco, ornate edges and caps (contemporary binding). FIRST EDITION, complete in all nine volumes. It is adorned with an illustrated and engraved title page for each volume and 691 PLATES, depicting 1,222 figures, drawn and engraved by François-Anne DAVID. A copy with a complete set of the phallic figures (numbers 142 to 163 in Volume VII and plate 31 in Volume VIII), which are often missing. Excludes the three rare supplementary volumes published after the Revolution (1797, 1798 and 1803).
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Auction time 11/12/2026 at 2:00 PM
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