The history of the arts and sciences of the antients
Subtitle: under the following heads, in three volumes : vol. I., Agriculture, commerce, architecture, sculpture, painting, music, the art military : vol. II., Art military, grammar, philology, rhetoric, poetry : vol. III., Poetry, history, eloquence, philosophy, civil law, metaphysics and physics, physic, botany, chymisty [sic], anatomy, mathematics, geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, geography, and navigation
By: by Mr. Rollin ... ; translated from the French.
Edition: The second edition, illustrated with fifty-two copper plates, representing the civil and military architecture of the antients, their temples, machines, engines of war, painting, &c.
Publisher: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, R. Baldwin, Hawes, Clarke and Collins, R. Horsfield, W. Johnston, W. Owen, T. Caslon, S. Crowder, B. Law, Z. Stuart, Robinson and Roberts, and Newbery and Carnan
Published: 1768
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: History, Ancient -- Early works to 1800; Humanities -- History -- Early works to 1800
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Other titles: History of the arts and sciences of the ancients
Notes: Translation of books 22-27 of the author's Histoire ancienne des Egyptiens, des Carthaginois, des Assyriens, des Babyloniens, des Medes et des Perses, des Macedoniens, des Grecs; with additional plates from other sources (cf. The translator to the reader, v. 1.)
Vol. 1 has a collective t.p.; each v. has its own t.p.
Vol. 1: [24], 374 p., [12] folded leaves of plates; v. 2: [8], 360 p., [40] folded leaves of plates; v. 3: [8], 516 p.
Includes index.
LC copy imperfect: v. 1 and 3 wanting.