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CAMUS (Armand-Gaston) Paris, Baudouin, imprimeur de l'Instit…
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CAMUS (Armand-Gaston)
Paris, Baudouin, imprimeur de l'Institut national, An XI (1802)...
Mémoire sur la collection des grands et petits voyages et sur la collection des voyages de Melchisedech Thevenot.
3 works in one vol. in-4 (25 × 18.5 cm), fawn shagreened calf, triple cold fillet, spine ribbed and decorated, brown titles and green tomaison, speckled edges (period binding).
First edition of this scholarly study, critical of these famous collections. A revolutionary, lawyer and member of the Académie des inscriptions, Camus is considered to be one of the founders of the Archives nationales.
Bound in the suite:
- CAMUS (Armand-Gaston). Rapport à l'Institut national, classe de littérature et Beaux-Arts, d'un voyage fait à la fin de l'an × dans les departemens du Bas-Rhin, de la rive gauche de ce fleuve [...]. Ibid, id.
First edition.
- AMEILHON. Éclaircissemens sur l'inscription grecque du monument trouvé à Rosette. Ibid. year XI (1803).
One of the first editions of the Greek inscription of the Rosetta stone, four years after the discovery of this famous stele at Fort Saint-Julien near Rosetta. The author was an administrator at the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. It includes a large folding plate engraved in copper on heavy laid paper.
An interesting factitious collection from the library of Georges Heilbrun, with his bookplate.
Hole on the first half-title. Rubbing to headpieces, spines and corners.
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