Catalogue raisonné d'une collection generale, de pierres gravées antiques et modernes, tant en creux que camées, tirée des cabinets les plus celébres de l'Europe. Moulées en pâtes de couleurs a l'imitation des pierres, emaux blancs, et soufres, par Jacques Tassie sculpteur. Mis en ordre et le texte rédigé par R.E. Raspe. Orné de planches gravées... = A descriptive catalogue of a general collection of ancient and modern engraved gems, cameos as well as intaglios, taken from the most celebrated cabinets in Europe; and cast in coloured pastes, white enamel, and sulphur by James Tassie, modeller; arranged and described by R.E. Raspe; and illustrated with copper-plates. To which is prefixed, an introduction on the various uses of this collection, the origin of the art of engraving on hard stones, and the progress of pastes. - Raspe, Rudolf Erich, 1737-1794 (imprimé pour J. Tassie, et se vend chez lui, N° 20, Leicester-Fields; et chez J. Murray, libraire, N° 32, Fleet-Street C. Buckton, impremier, Great Pulteney Street, 1791)
Work in two volumes. Pagination continues from vol. 1.
Half-title: A descriptive catalogue of engraved gems, &c. Catalogue raisonné de pierres gravées, &c.
Printed in parallel columns of English and French with added t.p. in French.
Title-pages in red and black.
With three supplements, each with separate pagination and register: 'Liste des cabinets & noms de possesseurs', 'Liste des graveurs anciens & modernes', and 'A reference from the numbers of the old catalogue to the new'.