BERGIER, Nicolas. - Lot 13

BERGIER, Nicolas. Histoire des grands chemins de l'Empire Romain. A Paris, chez C. Morel, 1622. Fort volume small in-4, (20) ff. including title-frontispice, 112 pp, (2) ff. and pp. 113-295, (2) ff. and pp. 297-564, (2) ff. and pp. 565-768, (2)ff. and pp.769-854, (14) ff. 18th-19th century marbled basane, probably Spanish, ornate ribbed spine, gilt border, yellow edges (hinges cracked, quire out of order, foxing, some leaves uniformly browned). First edition. Bergier's most remarkable work, devoted to the road network of ancient Rome. One of the copies with the beautiful porticoed title page-frontispiece etched in black. Nicolas Bergier (1567-1623), a scholar from Reims, jurist and historian of Roman antiquity, was appointed historiographer of France, thanks in particular to the support of President de Bellièvre. Provenance: ex libris antique printed Biblioteca del Excmo. Senor Marques (de) Astorga.