Rollin, Mr. [Charles].

The History of the Arts and Sciences of Antients [with all 52 plates complete] – Under the following Heads : In Three Volumes. Volume I: Agriculture, Commerce, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, the Art Military / Volume II: Art Military, Grammar, Philology, Rhetoric, Poetry / Volume III: Poetry, History, Eloquence, Philosophy, Civil Law, Metaphysics and Physics, Physic, Botany, Chymistry [Chemistry], Anatomy, Mathematics, Geometry, Astronomy, Arithmetic, Geography and Navigation. By Mr. Rollin, Late Principal of the University of Paris, Professor of Eloquence in the Royal College and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French. The Second Edition. Illustrated with Fifty-two [52] Copper Plates, representing the Civil and Military Architecture of the Antients, their Temples, Machines, Engines of War, Painting, &c.

3 Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for J. and F. Rivington, 1768. Octavo. Volume I: [12], 374 pages with 12 plates (as called for) / Volume II: [4], 360 pages with 40 plates (as called for) [pages 71 – 74 and the two plates these two pages are holding, loosely inserted], [Plate on page 104 loosely inserted] / Volume III: [4], 516 pages including a thorough Index. Hardcover / Original 18th century full leather with gilt lettering and ornament to spines of all three Volumes. All Volumes in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. All Volumes firm and all plates complete and in really excellent condition and strong imprints. All plates folded beautifully without tears ! From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown. Rare in this complete and excellent condition. It is common to find this work with plates missing which makes this complete set extremely scarce.

Includes three pages with “Directions to the Binder for placing the Prints in Mr.Rollins History of the Arts & Sciences”.

Volume I includes the following illustrations:

1. Plans and elevations of the five orders of Architecture
2. Machines of Ctesiphon, Metagenes and Paconius for removing great Stones
3. A View of the City and Port of Alexandria and Isle of Pharos
4. Temple of Fortune near the Porta Colina at Rome
5. Temple of Ceres and Proserpine at Eleusis
6. Temple of Concord at Rome
7. Temple of Virtue and Honour at Rome
8. Temple of Diana in the City of Magnesia
9. Temple of Diana at Ephesus
10. Temple of Jupiter Olympius at Athens
11. A Fragment of an antient [ancient] painting in Fresco, found Anno 1737 in the Ruins of the Palace of Augustus Caesar in the Garden of Farnese upon Mount Platine in Rome
12. A View of the Roman Camp

Volume II includes the following illustrations:

1. Trophy of the Antients [sic]
2. Roman Triumph
3. Profile and Elevations of the Walls of the Antients [sic]
4. Trtoise for filling up the fosse of a besieged place
5. Caesar’s Musculus or wooden Gallery and brick Tower at the Siege of Marseilles
6. Descent and Passage of sosses by the Antients [sic]
7. The Musculus and Pluteus of the Antients
8. Battering Catapulta
9. Battering Catapulta with its capitals affixed in its upright beams and canal for throwing great darts or many at a time
10. The Balista used in Sieges
11. Batteries of Balistas and Catapultas [Catapults]
12. Battering Ram suspended
13. Carriage of the Battering Ram
14. Battering Ram not suspended
15. Corvus (crow or crane) with nippers for seizing the battering Ram
16. Double Corvus or (crane) for breaking the blow of the battering Cam [sic]
17. Corvus (or crane) for demolishing walls
18. Corvus (or crane) with claws to take up men in sealing or upon assults [sic] [(assaults)]
19. Corvus (or crane) with a cage or the Tellenon used by the antients for liftingmen to the top of the works
20. Plan of the Base of Demetrius supported upon wheels, with their axis turning upon a pivor
21. Towers with bridges of the emperor Frederick I. at Jerusalem
22. Caesar’s moving tower at the Siege of Namur with the powers of moving it
23. The Helepolis of Demetrius Poliorcetes at the Siege of Rhodes [Rhodos] with its two draw-bridges
24. Towers with corridors or Galleries and a Ram not suspended
25. Towers of Stone moved from one place to another by an Architect of Boulogne
26. Floating Towers and Galleries of Demetrius at the Siege of Rhodes
27. Profile of Part of the Circumvallation with its fosse and advanced fosse of Caesar’s camp before Alexia
28. Blockade of Platea by a double line of masonry surrounding it
29. The celebrated Blockade of Numantia with its two surrounding lines
30. Trenches and Galleries of approach of the antients
31. Profile and manner of erecting the cavaliers or platforms of the antients
32. Surprizing terras of the Romans at the Siege of Massada
33. Terras of Cosroez at the Siege of Edessa, undermined by the besieged
34. Mine from the camp to the inside of a place
35. Mine for sapping the foundation of a wall
36. Entrenchments of the antients behind breaches
37. Grappling Corvus of Duillius
38. The Dolphin of the Greeks
39. Corvus (or crane) of Archimedes according to Polybius and Plutarch for seizing and lifting ships out of the Water
40. Columna Rostrata or naval trophy erected in memory of the victory of Duillius over the Carthaginians

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 31353AB

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