Lot no. 288
[MONTFAUCON (Bernard de). Thrésor des antiquitez de la couronne de France representées en figures d'après leurs originaux. La Haye, Pierre de Hondt, 1745. 2 volumes in-folio, marbled calf, spine decorated, red edges (Binding of the period). Important iconographic collection devoted to the history of France, containing 305 engraved plates, often folding, which had been used to illustrate Montfaucon's Monumens de la monarchie françoise (Paris, 1729-1733, 5 vol. in-fol.).
Missing the equestrian portrait of Louis XV. Sideswipes, two headpieces damaged.
Brunet, V, 939.
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