Set of 9 Large Scale Original Antique Grand Tour Prints. Rome, 1776

Antique print titled 'Vue de Rocher, Temple et Cascade de St. Leu'. Copper engraving showing the rocks, temple and waterfall of Saint-Leu. This print originates from 'Jardins Anglo-C...

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely pair of original copper plate prints dating to 1719 by Bernard De Montfauucon of Paris. Dom Bernard de Montfaucon, O.S.B. (French: [d? m?~fok?~]; 13 January 1655 – 21 December 1741) was a French Benedictine monk of the Congregation of Saint Maur. He was an astute scholar who founded the discipline of palaeography, as well as being an editor of works of the Fathers of the Church. He is regarded as one of the founders of the modern discipline of archaeology Montfaucon was born on 13 January 1655 in the Castle of Soulatgé, a small village in the southern town of Corbières, then in the ancient Province of Languedoc, now in the modern Department of Aude. Other sources claimed his birth date is in 16 January, the most accepted date. After one year he was moved to the Castle of Roquetaillade, residence of his family. When he was seven, he was sent to Limoux, to the college run by the Fathers of Christian Doctrine Montfaucon served in the French army as a volunteer and participated in the Franco-Dutch War of 1673. He was a captain of grenadiers and made two campaigns under the command of Marshall Turenne, participated in the Battle of Herbsthausen and fell ill in Saverne in Alsace. Because of his infectious illness he made a vow to Our Lady of Marceille to give one hundred livres to her sanctuary in Limoux and to become a monk, if he was able to return to his country as a result of her intervention. After the death of Montfaucon's father at the Château de Roquetaillade, in 1675 he entered the novitiate of the Benedictine monastery of Bream in Toulouse. There he learned several ancient languages: Greek, Hebrew, Chaldean, Syriac, and Coptic. In 1687 Montfaucon was called to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés and he started to work on an edition of the works of the Greek Church...

Original antique print of a large grasshopper. This print originates from 'Bilderbuch fur Kinder' by F.J. Bertuch. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man...

Set of 2 original antique prints of turtles. These prints originate from 'Dictionnaire universel d'Histoire Naturelle' by d'Orbigny. Published 1861. Charles Henry Dessalines d'Orbigny was a French botanist and geologist specializing in the Tertiary of France. At the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, d'Orbigny identified many of the flowering plant species returned to France from his brother's natural history collecting...

Antique print titled 'Vue d'Optique representant Rome dans sa Splendeur Ancienne (..)'. Optical print representing Rome in its ancient splendour. This is an optical print, also calle...

Antique print titled 'L'Hermitage à Versailles - Labyrinthe d'Abano au Prince Mocenigo - Projet d'un Labyrinthe par Bettini'. Copper engraving showing a Labyrinth and the Hermitage o...

Antique print titled 'Partie Centrale du Bassin de Neptune a Versailles'. Copper engraving showing parts of the Neptune fountain of Versailles, France...

Antique print titled 'Vue de la deuxieme cascade de St. Leu'. Copper engraving showing the waterfall of Saint-Leu. This print originates from 'Jardins Anglo-Chinois à la Mode' by Geo...

Antique print titled 'Gezicht van de overstrooming der sluis te Delfshaven, ’s avonds, den 14den Novemb. 1775.’ This print illustrates the flood at Delfshaven (The Netherlands). This...

Antique print titled 'Jardins de la Maison de Neuilly'. Copper engraving showing the design of a garden in France. This print originates from 'Jardins Anglo-Chinois à la Mode' by...