Lot 3318: Adam, Lambert Sigisbert (1700-1759), l'aîné. , Recueil de sculptures antiques greques et romaines. Paris: Daumont, [1754]

4to (323 x 242mm.), engraved throughout (including title-page, contents leaf and preface leaf), illustration : title-page, one head-piece, 61 plates, binding : contemporary French mottled calf gilt, spine gilt in compartments

Blackmer 2; cf. Berlin Catalogue 4209 (1755 edition)

The sculptor Adam acquired these statues from the heirs of Cardinal de Polignac, who had earlier hired him to repair them when both were in Rome. Adam used them to form the nucleus of a larger collection which he has illustrated here. This work was intended to serve as a catalogue of casts which could be purchased.