Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of France (2 vol)

Bernard de Montfaucon:

A collection of Regal and Ecclesiastical Antiquities of France, in upwards of three hundred large folio copper plates. 1-2.

London, printed for W. Innys, J. & P. Knapton and R. Mamby & H. S. Cox, 1750. Folio. (41 x 25 cms.) [2] + ii + 82; + 74 pp. + portrait frontispiece (Louis XV), torn + 1-154, 155-304 engraved plates, many double-page.

Two volumes. Very rubbed contemporary full leather, spines chipped at head & foot, cracks to joints, but sound. Plates fine, some occasional slight foxing, a few leaves at beginning and end darkened. Bookplate of Fredrik af Sandeberg.

The scarce English language edition of ”Les Monuments de la Monarchie Francoise”.

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