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Recueil d'antiquités égyptiennes, étrusques, greques et romaines

Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765 · 1752 · Paris : Desaint & Saillant · 260 pictures

A seven-volume antiquarian catalogue of Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek and Roman objects assembled and etched under the direction of the comte de Caylus, published in Paris from 1752 for collectors and scholars. Plates show engraved gems, carved figures, lamps, vases and inscriptions in outline and fine hatching, isolated on blank grounds with numbered keys and scale bars usable as spot ornaments.

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