Montfaucon’s explanations ...
SOLD for £3000 to David Stone in an Y Gelli sale of July 23 was a first edition set of Bernard de Montfaucon’s L’Antique Expliquee... of 1719-57, comprising ten vols. (in 15) including supplement.
As the Hay-on-Wye catalogue explained, the work appears in a variety of forms but this combination o…