Author: Millin, A. L. (Aubin Louis).
Title: Galerie mythologique. Recueil de monuments pour servir a l'étude de la mythologie, de l'histoire de l'art, de l'antiquité figurée, et du langage allégorique des anciens. Avec 190 planches gravées au trait, contenant près de 800 monuments antiques, tels que statues, bas-reliefs, pierres gravées, medailles, fresques et peintures de vases, dont plus de 50 sont inédits, I-II. [TWO VOLUMES].
Description: Paris, Soyer, 1811. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. With a total of 191 plates. Royal octavo. Pp. xii, 211, plus plates I-XCI; 290, (1) Errata for both volume, plus plates XCII-CLXXXII, plus 9 bis numbers. Two plates are folding. HARDCOVER, uniformly bound in the original publishers orange-brown boards, dark brown gilt morocco lettering-piece to each spine; boards rubbed at extremities, paper over spines chipped in places, corners chafed, very light dampmark at bottom of leaves of first volume, mostly in margin. In good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. A remarkable production comprising of a total of 684 illustrations, fully collated for completeness. With the elegant bookplate of Cornelius Grinnell to first paste-down of each volume, possibly the father (1786-1830) of the famous Grinnell dynasty, whose descendants have created historical and commercial successes in Massachusetts and the United State. The first volume has a lovely citation, written in neat contemporary hand, dated London, 1820, which opens: "I cannot resist the opportunity of mentioning with gratitude, the pleasure I have derived, from the very elegant little manual, published a few years since in France, by Mons Millin, under the title of "Galerie Mythologique". It refers to "Spence's Anecdotes" and might have been written by Grinnell himself and pasted inside the cover. TIMO-1 IN .

Keywords: ARCHAEOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION EXCAVATIONS EXPLORATION EXPLORATIONS SURVEY SURVEYS GEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGICAL GEOLOGY ARCHEOLOGY CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY STUDIES NEAR FAR EAST GREECE GREEK ROME ROMAN EGYPT MEDIEVAL POSTMEDIAEVAL HISTORY P I


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