depuis sa Décadence au IVe Siècle jusqu'à son Renouvellement au XVIe, 6 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait medallion and one or two other text illustrations, 325 engraved plates of architecture, sculpture and painting after Giacomo Machiavelli and others, most with tissue guards, plate LVII in vol.4 torn and creased at fore-edge not affecting image, some spotting and soiling, occasional browning and light marginal staining, engraved book-label of George Cornwall Legh and shelf-label of High Legh library, contemporary blue paste-paper boards, uncut, worn, spines lacking or defective, folio, Paris, 1823. Important record of the art of the Middle Ages, intended as a continuation of Winckelmann's Geschichte der Kunst des Altertums of 1764.