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DU CHOUL (Albert). THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT...

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DU CHOUL (Albert). THE RELIGION OF THE ANCIENT ROMANS drawn from the purest sources of Antiquity with a DISCOURSE ON THE CASTRAMETATION & MILITARY DISCIPLINE OF THE ROMANS, of the Greek & Roman Baths & Antique Exercises. Dusseldorf, Jean Vander Smissen, 1731. Three parts bound in a small quarto volume, marbled fawn basane, spine ribbed and decorated (contemporary binding); (1) title page, illustrated frontispiece, 312 pages, (27) ff. 55 ff. of which title, 1 folding plate 20 ff., (5) ff. table. Lower spine partly torn off, small tears at the spine ends, corners dulled, small wormholes at the spine but body of the book intact. NEW EDITION containing an illustrated FRONTISPICE, a folding plate and numerous woodcut vignettes and plates by Pierre Eskirsch.