BERGIER, Nicolas. - Lot 76

BERGIER, Nicolas. Histoire des Grands Chemins de l'Empire Romain... New edition. A Bruxelles, chez Jean Léonard, 1728. 2 volumes in-4, 23 ff (including title, dedication, preface, tables...), 602 pp, 13 plates (including frontispiece and 2 portraits) and pp. 603-909, 14 ff (table), 2 folding plates. Later half fawn basane, 5-ribbed spine, fawn title-piece and green tomaison, central gilt-lettered caissons, gilt head (spine slightly faded and rubbed, browning). Second, most complete edition of this esteemed work on Roman roads and traffic in the empire. Originally published in Paris in 1622. Illustrated with a frontispiece drawn and copper-engraved by B. Picart, 2 portraits of Philippe François, prince de Rubempré (1669-1742) and Nicolas Bergier, dedicatee of the work, and 12 plates including 8 folding maps and 2 views. A total of 15 black copper-engraved plates. Brunet, I, 786.