Paris 1740. Leather bound. Charles Rollin - Histoire ancienne des Egyptiens des Carthaginois des Assyriens des Babyloniens des Medes et des Perses des Macedoniens des Grecs - Tome I-VI - Veuve Estienne Paris 1740 - Leatherbound - Good - 20x26 cm - 6-volumes - lxiv 574 11p with engraved frontispiece and 5 maps; 715 10p with 4 f maps; 831 10p with 2 f maps; 712 8p with 2 maps and 1 engraved plate; 852 12p with 2 engraved plates; 816p 16 cm full leather quarto bindings with gild raised bands and red title labels on spines <p>Charles Rollin 1661-1741 published his Ancient History between 1730-38 This 6-volume quarto edition predates the author's death by a year While the history of these works cannot be taken at face value and would not hold up to contemporary historiographic standards what they do offer is a profound example of early 18th-century French academic practices in the study of Ancient civilizations revealing more about scholar-author Rollin and his perspective on both the Classical period and his methodologies in regards to the study of history</p> hardcover