Oct 11, 2012 - Sale 2289

Sale 2289 - Lot 160

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(HERCULANEUM.) [KILIAN, GEORG CHRISTOPH.] Le Pitture Antiche D'Ercolano E Contorni. Together 8 volumes in 3. Extensively illustrated. Folio, later 1/2 calf-backed boards, covers scuffed and worn with some exposure to corners and edges, soiling and worming, morocco lettering pieces, spines dried and chipped at extremities with slight loss, edges dyed red; plates with occasional water staining and folds, though mostly marginal and generally clean. [Augsburg, c. 1787]

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German Edition. Earlier collation records 50 plates in vol. 1, 60 in 2, 60 in 3, 70 in 4, 79 (of 80[?]) in 5, 96 in 6, 97 (of 98) in 7, and 93 in 8. Kilian was a noted collector and member of the well-known Augsburg family. He produced German editions of other works on antiquities such as Wood, Sayer and Le Roy. sold as is.