Le grand cabinet Romain ou Recueil d'antiquitez Romaines, qui consistent en bas reliefs, statues des dieux & des hommes, instruments sacerdotaux, lampes, urnes, seaux, brasselets, clefs, anneaux, & phioles lacrimales, que l'on trouve a Rome. Avec les explications de Michel Ange de La Chausse.
Michel Ange de La Chausse (1660-1724)
Category
Books
Date
1706
Materials
Place of origin
Amsterdam
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3032428
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 126, [2] p., [45] leaves of plates : ill. ; fol. Running number: 6289. Variant with "MONSIEUR DE LA CHAUSSE" on leaf **1. With 43 leaves of plates. Binding: eighteenth-century blind-tooled full creamy white sheepskin; sewn onto six sewing supports; six raised bands; covers have a double blind fillet border and an inner panel formed by double and single blind fillets and a blind roll pattern, with blind floral cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern along board edges; spine mostly missing; gilt title on brown sheepskin label on spine. Red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Michel Ange de La Chausse (1660-1724) , author Joachim Roche, editor Caspar Luiken (1672-1708), engraver (printmaker)