A Collection of Antique Vases, Altars, Paterae, Tripods, Candelabra, Sarcophagi, &c., from Various Museums and Collections, Engraved on 170 Plates

by Henry Moses. With historical essays by H. H. Baber

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First edition

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1814 . First edition plates are dated 1811 . 4to. xii, 61 pp. 150 engraved plates, 10 hand-colored, engraved title page with an ornamental border, engraved chapter head and tail-pieces. Includes a short essay by H.H. Baber per a citation in the British Museum Catalogue on each of the categories covered, primarily antiques from Ancient Greece. Lowndes vol. II, pp. 1021-1022 attributing the essays to Thomas Hope . Plates with rather persistent foxing, but an attractive

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