La Chausse's Romanum Museuem Engraving - 1746 - HORSE STANDARD

ROMAN ANTIQUITY ENGRAVING

This 265 year old  copper engraving print is from M.A. Causeus's ROMANUM MUSEUM SIVE THESAURUS ERUDITAE ANTIQUITATIS (A THESAURUS OF ROMAN ANTIQUITIES IN THE SIVE MUSEUM) published in Rome by La Chasse in 1746. The engraver was Pietro Santi Bartoli (1635-1700) whose single engravings (not from this publication) have sold over $4,000 at auction.

This print has an image that is about 3 1/2 " x 3 1/2" on a page that is 13 " x 9 1/4 ".  It is in very good condition with usual minor age toning.  It is suitable for framing and would be an excellent gift.

This print is rare. The exact book where it came from sells for upt to $2,300 on the Internet while a copy of the first edition, published by Joannis Boemi in 1690, is currently for sale in Paris for over $10,000.

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The antique engraving that is being offered

for sale features:

"HORSE STANDARD WITH MONEY FROM THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE"

IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Hill fait paraître General Natural History (deux volumes, 1748 - 1752 ), Useful Family Herbal ( 1754 ), British Herbal ( 1756 - 1757 ), Eden, or Compleat Body of Gardening ( 1757 ), Exotic Botany ( 1759 , deuxième édition 1772 ), Hortus Keweensis ( 1768 ), Flora Britanica ( 1760 ), Herbarium Britannicum ( 1769 - 1770 ), Virtues of British Herbs ( 1770 ), Decade of Curious and Elegand Trees and Plants ( 1773 ), Twenty-five New Plants, rais'd in the Royal Garden of Kew ( 1773 ). Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817) lui dédie en 1760 le genre Hillia de la famille des Rubiaceae . Hill issued General Natural History (two volumes, 1748 - 1752 ), Useful Family Herbal ( 1754 ), Herbal British ( 1756 - 1757 ), Eden, Gold Compleat Body of Gardening ( 1757 ) Exotic Botany ( 1759 , second edition 1772 ) , Hortus Keweensis ( 1768 ), Flora Britannica ( 1760 ), Britannicum Herbarium ( 1769 - 1770 ), Virtues of British Herbs ( 1770 ), Decade of Curious and Elegand Trees and Plants ( 1773 ), Twenty-Five New Plants, rais'd in the Royal Garden of Kew ( 1773 ). Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727-1817) dedicated to him in 1760 the kind Hillier of the family of Rubiaceae .