L' Antiquité Expliquée Et Représentée En Figures: La Religion des Egyptiens, des Arabes, des Syriens, des Perses, des Scythes, des Germains, des Gaulois, des Espagnols & des Carthaginois
Bernard de Montfaucon's 1719 French antiquarian compendium, issued in Paris for scholars and collectors, catalogues the religions of ancient peoples through engraved plates. The pictures are dense black-and-white copperplate grids of gems, amulets, deities and inscriptions, each framed in ruled borders, showing how a designer might organise many small emblems into a single ordered layout.
