De L'Utilité Des Voyages Et De L'Avantage que la recherche des Antiquitez procure aux sçavans
De L'Utilité Des Voyages is a 1727 French antiquarian treatise by Charles-César Baudelot de Dairval, written for scholars on the value of travel and collecting antiquities. Its engraved plates show ancient coins and medals, with obverse and reverse heads, inscriptions, and small animal and figure devices arranged in numbered rows. A designer could take from them the dense, orderly grid of circular medallion forms and the crisp engraved line work of classical portraiture.
