Observations sur les antiquités d'Herculanum
Subtitle: avec quelques réflexions sur la peinture & la sculpture des anciens; & une courte description de plusieurs antiquités des environs de Naples
By: Par mm. Cochin & Bellicard
Contributors: Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790; Nicole, Claude François, ca. 1700-ca. 1783
Edition: 2. éd.
Publisher: Chez Ch. Ant. Jombert ...; Et se trouve a Naples chez Jean Gravier ...
Published: 1757
Place of publication: A Paris; [Naples]
Language: fre
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Early works to 1800
Notes: No. 29 is repeated in numbering of plates, i.e. two plates are no. 29; one folded plate facing p. 60 is unnumbered.

Illustrations: forty one numbered engraved plates depicting antiquities, views and plans of architectural sites found in Herculaneum, designed and engraved by Bellicard, and one additional unnumbered folded plate depicting the Grotta di Pozzuoli, which is designed and engraved by Claude François Nicole.

"La seconde [section] renferme une dissertation sur les ouvrages de peinture & de sculpture qu'on a trouvés dans les mêmes ruines, par m. Cochin ..."--P. v.

Sloan candidate lp Tier 1

Library's copy 2 is bound in old decorated papers and has an old bookplate pasted inside the front cover (Biblioteca Roshless Bername).

Library's copy 4 bound in 19th century boards; gilt leather spine; leather corners; edges sprinkled red; former owner's signature on front free endpaper.