Beschreibung:

33,5 : 21,5 cm. Frontispiece, Title with engraved vignette, 15 leaves, 303 pages, 88 engraved plates and 47 engraved vignettes. Contemporary calf. Volume 1 (off 2).

Bemerkung:

The members of the House of Orleans, have been, for the most part, important collectors. Gaston d'Orleans (1608 - 1660), the brother of Louis XIII, has collected a great number of cameos by the painter Pierre Paul Rubens. The collection is nowadays in the National Library of France. - A second volume was published in 1784. - Book Block lossened, spine damaged, binding rubbed, inside mostly fine.