PALISSOT DE MONTENOY (Charles). Nouvelle édition Considérablement augmentée, enrichie de figures.Liège: Clément Plomteux, 1777 [tomes 1 à 6] ; Liège, Paris: Jean-François Bastien, 1779 [tome 7]. - 7 volumes in-8, 196 x 120: portrait, xlviij, 350 pp, (3 ff. last blank), 4 plates; (2 ff.), 487 pp, 4 plates; (2 ff.), 349 pp, 10 plates; (2 ff.), 423 pp; (2 ff.), xxiv, 329 pp; (2 ff.), 479 pp; (2 ff.), 407 pp. Marbled calf, triple gilt fillet on covers, spine ribbed and decorated, marbled edges (contemporary binding). Esteemed edition, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author engraved by Pierre-Philippe Choffard after Charles Monnet, and 18 out-of-text figures, 8 of which engraved by Marie-Thérèse Martinet after Méon and 10 signed by Charles Monnet, without the name of the engraver. A first edition copy, addressed to Plomteux and dated 1777 for the first 6 volumes. A fine copy in contemporary binding. Some minor wear.