Histoire des grands chemins de l'empire romain, : contenant l'origine, progrès & etenduë quasi incroyable des chemins militaires, pavez depuis la ville de Rome jusques aux extremitez de son empire. Où se voit la grandeur & la puissance incomparable des Romains; ensemble l'éclaircissement de l'Itineraire d'Antonin & de la carte de Peutinger. / Par Nicolas Bergier, advocat au siege presidial de Reims.
Nicolas Bergier (1567-1623)
Category
Books
Date
1728
Materials
Place of origin
Brussels
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3053503
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v. : ill., maps, ports. ; 4to. The 8 folded plates which make up the engraved map (copy of the Tabula Peutingeriana) have been pasted together and bound at the end of vol. 2. Pencil numbers and codes written in different hands on front free endpaper in vol. 1: "179", "iz+", "328", "121", "3381", "2v LD/-/-", "S27" (crossed through in pencil), "O6p" and "hp". Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper in vol. 1: "2930" and (in a different hand): "94 Bsf[?]". Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 1: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price cut out). Provenance: Library stamp: 'Bibliothèque de La Malmaison' on title pages [i.e. from the library of Emperor Napoleon I, Emperor of France (1769–1821) and Empress Josephine (de Beauharnais), Empress of France (1763–1814)]. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (large variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Historic shelfmarks: "11.E.3-4" [pencil, written over earlier pencil shelfmarks (illegible)] and "11 b 3-4" [pencil, erased]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf; triple blind fillet to form a border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines; red spine labels: 'Chemins de l'emp. Romain.'; brown spine labels: 'Tom. I[-II].'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; red bookblock edges; green ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
Nicolas Bergier (1567-1623), author Berterham, Jan Baptist, engraver (printmaker) Cortens, G, original artist Heylbrouck, Norbert, engraver (printmaker) Bernard Picart (Paris 1673 - Amsterdam 1733) , engraver (printmaker) Jan Van Vianen (b. ca. 1660), engraver (printmaker) Marcus Welser (Augsburg 1558 - Augsburg 1614), editor