BERGIER (Nicolas). Lot n° 46

Histoire des grands chemins de l'empire romain. Brussels, Jean Léonard, 1728. 5 parts in 2 volumes in-4, marbled calf, triple gilt fillet, ornate spine, inner lace, gilt edges (Binding of the time). Second edition, the best and most complete of this esteemed work on Roman roads and traffic in the empire. Its author, the historian from Reims Nicolas Bergier (1567-1623), had originally published it in Paris in 1622. The illustration consists of a frontispiece drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart, portraits of the duke of Rubempré by J.-B. Berterham and of the author by Jan van Vianen, four plates out of the text, three of which are folded, and above all the famous Peutinger Table, a true road map of the Roman Empire, made up of eight large folding plates. A very nice copy, wide margins and well bound. Discreet repairs to the bindings; some foxing and uniformly faded leaves.