Antiquity] - SAINT-SIMON, Maximilien-Henri de - Histoire de la guerre des Bataves et des Romains (…) avec les planches d’ Otto Vaenius , gravées par A. Tempesta (…). Redigée par le Marquis de St. Simon. Amsterdam, M.M. Rey, 1770, large folio, cont. quarter calf (rubbed), spine on 6 raised bands (head and tail def., joints splitting), [8]-XXXIV-76 pp. (occasional marginal dampstaining or spotting, blue pencil marks on p. 1, sm. ink stains on a few pp.). Good large paper copy.
One of 3 issues of this splendid 18th-c. ed. by Saint-Simon (1720-1799), French author active in Utrecht, of the engravings by Otto Vaenius (1556-1629) after Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), publ. in "Batavorum cum Romanis Bellum" (1612) and illustrating the Dutch Revolt in Roman disguise. Ill. with 6 cont. coloured folding maps (2 double-page), 36 full-page pl. and engr. head and tail-pieces. Ref. Conlon 70:1420. STCN 184283159.
Antiquity] - SAINT-SIMON, Maximilien-Henri de - Histoire de la guerre des Bataves et des Romains (…) avec les planches d’ Otto Vaenius , gravées par A. Tempesta (…). Redigée par le Marquis de St. Simon. Amsterdam, M.M. Rey, 1770, large folio, cont. quarter calf (rubbed), spine on 6 raised bands (head and tail def., joints splitting), [8]-XXXIV-76 pp. (occasional marginal dampstaining or spotting, blue pencil marks on p. 1, sm. ink stains on a few pp.). Good large paper copy.
One of 3 issues of this splendid 18th-c. ed. by Saint-Simon (1720-1799), French author active in Utrecht, of the engravings by Otto Vaenius (1556-1629) after Antonio Tempesta (1555-1630), publ. in "Batavorum cum Romanis Bellum" (1612) and illustrating the Dutch Revolt in Roman disguise. Ill. with 6 cont. coloured folding maps (2 double-page), 36 full-page pl. and engr. head and tail-pieces. Ref. Conlon 70:1420. STCN 184283159.
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