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Vol. I. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / GRAVÉES PAR F.
A. DAVID / AVEC / LEURS EXPLICATIONS / Par P. Sylvain M.
/ TOME I. / A Paris chez David, Graveur, rue / des Noyers, en face de
celle des Anglois / Avec Privilége du Roi. / 1781 [1780?].

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); historical note ([1]-7); text, with
134 engravings on 65 plates inserted (8-165); table of sizes (166-68).

Vol. II. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME II. /
. . . / 1781.

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); text, with 141 engravings on 72 plates
inserted ([1]-212); table of sizes (213-15).

Vol. III. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME III. /
. . .

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); text, with 130 engravings on 72
plates inserted ([1]-200); table of sizes (201-3).

Vol. IV. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / Par P. Sylvain
Maréchal / TOME IIII / . . .

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); text, with 130 engravings on 72 plates
inserted ([1]-116); table of sizes (117-19).

Vol. V. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME V. /
. . .

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); text, with 181 engravings on 108
plates inserted ([1]-95); table of sizes (97-99).

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Vol. VI. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME VI. /
. . . / TOM I. BRONZES.

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); text, with 144 engravings on 72 plates
inserted ([1]-96); table of sizes (97-98).

Vol. VII. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME VII.
/ . . . / TOM II BRONZES.

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); text, with 163 engravings on 108
plates inserted ([1]-101); table of sizes (102-3).

Vol. VIII. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . [Maréchal's
name deleted] / TOME VIII / . . .

[Printed title page:] ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / OU / Les
plus belles Peintures Antiques, Marbres, / Bronzes, Meubles, trouvés
dans les Excavations / d'Herculanum, Stabia & Pompeïa; / Gravées
par M. DAVID, / Graveur du Roi de Prusse, de Monsieur, de
l'Académie / Royale de Peinture de Berlin, de celle des Sciences & /
Belles-Lettres de Rouen. / Avec leurs Explications Françoises. / TOME
VIII. / A PARIS, / Chez l'Auteur, M. DAVID, rue des Cordeliers, / au
coin de celle de l'Observance. / M. DCC. LXXXIX. / AVEC PRIVILÉGE
DU ROI.

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); printed title page (1 leaf); text, with
72 engravings on 66 plates inserted ([1]-52).

Vol. IX. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / Par P. Sylvain
M. / TOME IX. / A PARIS / Chez F. A. David, rue Pierre-/Sarrazin
No. 13. [1781 deleted.]

[Printed title page:] ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM, / Ou les
plus belles Peintures antiques, et les / Marbres, Bronzes, Meubles, etc.
etc. / trouvés dans les excavations d'Herculanum, / Stabia et Pompeia, /
Gravées par F. A. DAVID, / AVEC LEURS EXPLICATIONS, /
Par P. S. MARÉCHAL. / TOME NEUVIÈME. / A PARIS, / Chez
l'Auteur, F. A. DAVID, / rue Pierre-Sarrazin, no. 13. / M. DCC.
LXXX [?].

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); printed title page (1 leaf); text, with
129 engravings on 58 plates inserted ([1]-108).

Vol. X. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME X. /
. . . / Chez F. A. David, rue Pierre-/Sarrazin, No. 14 / [1781 deleted].

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[Printed title page:] ANTIQUITÉS / . . . / TOME DIXIÈME. /
. . . / rue Pierre-Sarrazin, no. 14. / M. DCC. XCVII.

4to. Engraved title page (1 leaf); printed title page (1 leaf); text, with
59 engravings on 59 plates inserted ([1]-86).

Vol. XI. ANTIQUITÉS / D'HERCULANUM / . . . / TOME XI. /
. . .

[Printed title page:] ANTIQUITÉS / . . . / TOME ONZIÈME. /
. . . / AN VI.

4to. Half title (1 leaf); engraved title page (1 leaf); printed title page
(1 leaf); text, with 28 engraved plates inserted and 29 engraved plates
following ([1]-44); index (45-58).

Vol. XII. ANTIQUITÉS / PEINTURES ANTIQUES / D'HERCU-
LANUM / et celles du Tombeau / des Nasons / AVEC / LEURS
EXPLICATIONS / TOM. XII. / A PARIS / Chez David, Rue de
Vaugirard, No. 1202. / AN XI. (1803)

[Printed title page:] ANTIQUITÉS / OU / LES PLUS BELLES /
PEINTURES ANTIQUES / D'HERCULANUM / Envoyées par S.
M. le Roi de Naples et / des Deux-Siciles au Gouvernement
Français en l'an XI (1803), / et celles / DU TOMBEAU DES
NASONS; / Gravées par F. A. DAVID, / AVEC des explications et
des recherches relatives à / l'Histoire, à la Mythologie, aux Usages anciens
/ et à l'Art. / TOME DOUZIÈME. / A PARIS, / Chez DAVID,
rue de Vaugirad, no. 1202. / An XI. (1803.)

4to. Half title (1 leaf); engraved title page (1 leaf); printed title page
(1 leaf); text, with 34 engraved plates inserted ([1]-46); index (4748).

The engraver was François-Anne David (1741-1824), a Parisian who
studied with Le Bas and became engraver to the king of Prussia. David
was a member of the Royal Academy of Painting of Berlin, as well as
that of Sciences and Letters at Rouen.

Pierre Sylvain Maréchal (1750-1803) seems to have been known
as a pornographic writer, a result, perhaps, of his association with
Herculaneum.

The first five volumes of this work are devoted to painting, Vols.
VI and VII are concerned with bronzes, Vol. VIII with objects and
furniture, Vols. IX-XI with lamps (see Plate LXXVII), and the twelfth
volume with paintings.

Plate LXXVII. From No. 78. Two lamps (Vol. XI, Pl. 45).

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This edition of the Antiquités d'Herculanum was entered by Brunet
under the name of its engraver, François-Anne David, and though it was
issued in both quarto and in octavo, there still remains some doubt as to
whether the quarto set was the one Jefferson had in mind when he
ordered, in the section on "Architecture" of the want list, a seven-volume
set for the University. One thing, however, is certain: this edition is
what Jefferson got from his order, because the 1828 Catalogue acknowledges
the presence of the twelve-volume set. Of this, only the first
nine volumes have survived.

The library has recently acquired a second set of twelve volumes.
The information on the title pages and contents has been taken from this
second set. The indifference to exact binding orders in the eighteenth
and early nineteenth centuries is well illustrated by these two sets. The
first set is bound in the following order: engraved title, title page, text,
and engravings. The engraved titles and the title pages for this first
set are late and were evidently bound in the earlier volumes after publication
of Vol. VIII. On the other hand, the second set lacks printed title
pages for the first seven volumes, some of which must certainly have
been published in the years between 1780(?) and 1789. This second
set is the gift of the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation.

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