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[Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum.] Ill.mo D.D. Rogerio Dupplesseis...
[Segmenta nobilium signorum et statuarum.] Ill.mo D.D. Rogerio Dupplesseis...
Franciscus Perrier, D.D.D. MDCXXXVIII Romæ, superiorum permissu. Cum privilegio summu Pontificis.
A Paris chez la v.e de F. Chereau [i.e. Marguerite Chereau] graveur du Roy rue S.t Jacques aux deux pilliers d'or avec privilege du Roi [n.d., c.1730].
4to (340 x 230mm, 13½ x 9") album, 18th century half calf with marbled boards; engraved title and 84 plates (of 100, two double-page), plus six from earlier plates; engraved index with titles on two plates. Title and plates numbered up to 38 plus extra plates mounted on album paper; plates numbered from 39 bound in, with titles in old ink mss. in margins. Index annotated in ink, marking the missing plates.
A collection of engravings of classical statues in Italian museums, including the famous 'Dying Gaul'. Originally published by François Perrier in 1638, these were published by Margarite Chéreau, who continued the business of her husband, François Chéreau, when he died in 1729. The series are close copies of earlier plates: one of the additional earlier plates is a reversed version of plate 39.
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