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EARLY ILLUSTRATED WORK OGLE, GEORGE. Antiquites Explained. Being a Collection of Figured Gems... Taken from the Classics. Volume I (all published).
EARLY ILLUSTRATED WORK OGLE, GEORGE. Antiquites Explained. Being a Collection of Figured Gems... Taken from the Classics. Volume I (all published). Frontispiece and 50 engraved plates. 4to, contemporary speckled calf with gilt floral borders and spine, joints cracked, scuffed and rubbed; split before frontispiece. London: Du Bosc, 1737
- Notes: first edition of probably the earliest book in English illustrating antique engraved gems. Essentially a plagiarized work after Lévesque De Gravelle's Recueil de Pierres Gravées Antiques, but augmented with poetry and quotations from classical authors. Sinkankas 4846.
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