Folio (mm 440x300), title within beautiful border with list of plates on verso, 25 georgr. maps engraved by P. Bourgoin, including 19 double-sheet, 4 on one page and 2 plans of Syracuse + 1 plate of naval battle between Romans and Carthaginians not indicated in the printed index. Contemporary half calf with corners, double label on spine, neoclassical and floral decorations, grey marbled plates. Abrasions and defects to the binding, some internal paper foxing. Depicts the known world of the ancients: Assyrians, Medes, Babylonians and Persians. Asia Minor and the Bosporus. The Orient. Expedition of young Cyrus. Alexander's expedition. Greece in ancient history. Greece in Roman history. Greece and the northern part up to the Danube. Cisalpine Gaul. First part of Italy proper. Second part of Italy proper. Magna Graecia. Hannibal's expedition. Italy on the Roman roads. Map of Rome. Sicily. Plan of Syracuse. Another plan of Syracuse. Spain. Gaul. Roman province. Egypt. Part of Africa occupied by the Carthaginians. Numidia. The maps are dated 1738, 1739, 1740, 1741 with reference 'pour servir à l' Histoire Romaine de M. Rollin, par Mr D'Anville' while the naval battle is dated 1800. Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697-1782) was a French geographer and cartographer. Appointed geographer to the king at the age of 21, he produced 211 maps, considered the best of his time, some of which remained authoritative until the 19th century. He published a general atlas in 1737, historical atlases and also contributed to the Encyclopaedia. He was elected to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in 1754 and to the Académie des sciences in 1773.