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 3053503.2
Summary
Bibliographic description
v. 2 : ill., maps ; 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 this vol. Provenance: Library stamp: 'Bibliothèque de La Malmaison' on title page [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.4" [pencil, written over earlier pencil shelfmark (illegible)] and "11 b 4" [pencil, erased]. Binding: Eighteenth-century full calf; triple blind fillet to form a border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; red spine label: 'Chemins de l'emp. Romain.'; brown spine label: 'Tom. II.'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; red bookblock edges; green ribbon marker.
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