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Nicolas BERGIER

Histoire des grands chemins de l'empire romain

Chez Jean Léonard, àBruxelles 1728, in-4 (22x28,5cm), (46 p.) 602 pp. et 603-909 pp. (29 p.), 2 volumes reliés.

Second edition, the most complete. The book is illustrated with a portrait of the author, a frontispiece, a portrait of Rubempre and 2 boards (including an unfolder) for volume 1 and 2 large folding boards and 8 boards unfolding Peutinger tables in volume 2. Numerous vignettes and initials, all engraved in size.
Binders of the time in full marbled calf, back with five nerves adorned with boxes and gilded florets as well as pieces of title and tomatoes red morocco, golden wheels on the cuts and caps, all red slices. Headdresses of injured heads with gaps, tail bit of the first flat of the volume 2 cracked on 5cm.
The most important work of Nicolas Bergier (1567-1623), the History of the Great Roads of the Roman Empire , was a reference manual on Roman history. It appeared for the first time in 1622 and became rare, the bookseller Jean Léonard gave in 1728, a reprint for the first time augmented table Peutinger. This monumental map covering the entire Roman Empire to China, is a reproduction, made in the late twelfth century, a copy made around 350, the original is even older. It was rediscovered in the early sixteenth ^century in Worms (Germany) and entrusted to Konrad Peutinger, a contemporary of Erasmus, who gave it its name.

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