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    Pierre d'. Recherches sur l'origine
    l'esprit et les progrès des arts de la Grèce;
    HANCARVILLE
    Pierre d'. Recherches sur l'origine
    HANCARVILLE
    Pierre d'. Recherches sur l'origine
    l'esprit et les progrès des arts de la Grèce;
    HANCARVILLE
    Pierre d'. Recherches sur l'origine

    Lot 34. HANCARVILLE, Pierre d'.

    Recherches sur l'origine, l'esprit et les progrès des arts de la Grèce;

    Sold: £1353

    Recherches sur l’origine, l’esprit et les progrès des arts de la Grèce; 91861
    sur leur connexion avec les arts et la religion de plus anciens peuples connus; sur les monumens antiques de l’Inde, de la Perse, du reste de l’Asie, de l’Europe et de l’Égypte …
    London, Appleyard, 1785

    D’Hancarville’s chef-d’oeuvre.

    ‘D’Hancarville, who had close connections with the Dilettanti Society, worked with Winckelmann and acted as Sir William Hamilton’s agent, assisting him in amassing his collection. In this controversial work he “”attempted to systematise an enormous amount of mythological and ritualistic material – Greek, Persia, Indian – and to draw relationships based on comparative mythology and the vaguest historical evidence. The plates are extremely interesting and illustrate elements from the various mysteries, mithraic, eleusinian, etc.’ (Blackmer).

    The work was never finished as the author took offence at the criticisms of his first two volumes. The third volume is a supplement responding to the censures.

    Description

    First edition. 3 vol. 4to. 90 engraved plates (12 folding); slight foxing and browning to vol. 3. Contemporary russia, covers decorated in gilt and blind, sometime rebacked, spines gilt in compartments, all edges gilt; corners worn else a fine set.

    Bibliography

    Blackmer 846; Brunet IV, 1135.