250 off-text engravings - MILLIN (Aubin-Louis).... - Lot 39 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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250 off-text engravings - MILLIN (Aubin-Louis).... - Lot 39 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
250 off-text engravings - MILLIN (Aubin-Louis). National Antiquities or Collection of Monumens to be used for the general and particular history of the French Empire... Paris, M. Drouhin, 1790-1799, 5 vol. 4°, full brown guilloche brown leather binding on covers, spine ribbed, gilt monogram in the center of the covers. Real monumental and archaeological inventory before the letter, started at the end of the ancien régime and continued until the Directoire. One notices in the title the appearance of the words "French Empire" (1790). Particularly treated regions: Paris, Île-de-France, Normandy, North. The illustration includes 250 copper-engraved plates (6 folded). The tables announce 245 of them: castles, abbeys, palaces, tombs, seals and coats of arms, stained glass windows, costumes, extracts from illuminated books, parks and gardens, etc. A large number of monuments or subjects represented have disappeared or undergone transformations. A complete copy of the five volumes published and very fresh.
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