Jacob Spon - Recherches curieuses d'antiquité - 1683

[SPON, Jacob]
Curious researches of antiquity, contained in several dissertations, on medals, bas-reliefs, statues, mosaics, & antique inscriptions; enriched with a large number of figures in line and etching. By Monsieur Spon, Doctor Agrégé at the College of Physicians of Lyons, & at the Academy of Ricourrati of Padua.

In Lyon, At Thomas Amaulry, rue Mercière, at the Mercure Galant. M. DC. LXXXIII [1683]. With Privilege of the King.

A quarto volume bound in full brown calf of the period, the spine with raised bands ornamented with gold-ruled compartments and repeated floral motifs, equipped with a red title piece. The boards bear in the center a fine gilded armorial vignette. The copy shows signs of wear from use, notably rubbing and rounded corners. The work is illustrated with an allegorical engraved frontispiece, a title page in black and red framed by an engraved vignette, as well as numerous in-text and out-of-text engravings of plates illustrating bas-reliefs, Greek and Latin inscriptions (notably on Syrian deities), coins and antique monuments such as the famous Gaeta vase (Nineteenth Dissertation).

Good copy of this rare work despite the defects cited.