Antiquity] - SAINT-SIMON, Maximilien-Henri de - Histoire de la guerre des Bataves et des Romains, d'après César, Corneille, Tacite, &c. Avec les planches d' Otto Vaenius , gravées par A. Tempesta (...) Accompagnée de plans et de cartes nouvelles. Amsterdam, M.M. Rey, 1770, folio, cont. half calf (def., joints and spine splitting), marbled paper on sides, gilt spine, [8]-xxxiv-76 pp. (very minor soiling, unobtrusive dampstain in smaller map). Exc. uncut copy.
New annotated 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). Consisting of 37 full-page engravings on 30 pls, 4 head and tail pcs by B. de Bakker, and 2 folding engr. maps of Europe after Ptolemy (old coloured). It is a series of allegorical engravings illustrating the armed struggle between the ancient Dutch tribes and their Roman oppressors inspired by Tacitus' history. Mod. bookpl. Robert Joostens . Ref. Conlon 70:1420. Sander 1794. STCN. BL (1). BnF (3).
Antiquity] - SAINT-SIMON, Maximilien-Henri de - Histoire de la guerre des Bataves et des Romains, d'après César, Corneille, Tacite, &c. Avec les planches d' Otto Vaenius , gravées par A. Tempesta (...) Accompagnée de plans et de cartes nouvelles. Amsterdam, M.M. Rey, 1770, folio, cont. half calf (def., joints and spine splitting), marbled paper on sides, gilt spine, [8]-xxxiv-76 pp. (very minor soiling, unobtrusive dampstain in smaller map). Exc. uncut copy.
New annotated 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). Consisting of 37 full-page engravings on 30 pls, 4 head and tail pcs by B. de Bakker, and 2 folding engr. maps of Europe after Ptolemy (old coloured). It is a series of allegorical engravings illustrating the armed struggle between the ancient Dutch tribes and their Roman oppressors inspired by Tacitus' history. Mod. bookpl. Robert Joostens . Ref. Conlon 70:1420. Sander 1794. STCN. BL (1). BnF (3).
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