title printed in red & black with engraved device, text within decorative border of typographic ornaments, engraved frontispiece by B.Audran after A.Coypel, 28 plates by Audran after Phillippe, duc d'Orléans, 1 unsigned plate after the Comte de Caylus, all within elaborate decorative borders by S.Fokke; 16 head- and tailpieces, final blank, contemporary French red morocco, covers with triple fillet border in gilt, spine in six compartments with raised bands, black morocco lettering-piece in the second compartment, the others with elegant repeat pattern in gilt, centering in an acorn and oak leaf spray, gilt turn-ins, comb-marbled endpapers, g.e., [Cohen-de Ricci 653; Sander 1226; cf. Ray French 2], small 4to, Paris, Imprimées pour les curieux , 1757. A beautiful copy of one of the most famous French 18th-century illustrated books. The original drawings for the illustrations were made by Philippe, duc d'Orléans, under the tutelage of Antoine Coypel in 1714 and subsequently engraved by Audran, and first published in Paris in 1718. The book was re-issued several times with different versions of the same engravings during the 18th century. For the present edition, a series of beautiful borders were added around the plates and a new version included of the risqué additional plate 'Les petits pieds' by the Comte de Caylus.