Borghesi, Oeuvres completes, Publiees par les orders et auxfrais de SM l'Empereur Napoleon III, 8 vols.

Bartolomeo Borghesi, Complete works. Publiees par les orders et auxfrais de SM l'Empereur Napoleon III, 8 vols., Imprimerie Imperiale, Paris 1862-1879, pp. 4264 overall, ill., 5 tables. total, 29 cm, beautiful half-canvas binding, plates decorated with phytomorphic motifs, titles and gold fillets on leather gusset on the spine.

The lot includes the following volumes:

Volume I: Oeuvres numismatiques I, 1862, pp. VIII, 517, 1 table. engraved by Dardel.

Volume III: Oeuvres epigraphiques I, 1864, pp. 549, ill.

Volume IV: Oeuvres epigraphiques II, 1865, pp. 540, 2 splendid plates. engraved by Dardel.

Volume V: Oeuvres epigraphiques III, 1869, pp. 641.

Volume VI: Lettres I, 1868, pp. 517, ill.

Volume VII: Lettres II, 1872, pp. 613, ill.

Volume VIII: Lettres III, 1872, pp. 628, ill.

Volume IX: Nouveau fragments des fastes consulaires, 1879, pp. 251, ill., 2 large plates. foldable

Set of 8 volumes, out of 10, of the sumptuous work of the famous numismatist and epigraphist Bartolomeo Borghesi (1781-1860), created by will and at the expense of Emperor Napoleon III.

Portrait of the author missing from the vol. VIII, tear from the internal margin of the volume. I without losses, stamp of ownership of an extinct library on the first leaves of some volumes, reinforcement on the last leaf of the volumes. V and VI, ordinary signs of aging, otherwise texts in excellent condition with very fresh paper, in nicks and largely untouched.

Extremely rare.