Histoire naturelle, planches. Tome premier.
Edme-François Jomard (1777-1862)
Category
Books
Date
1809
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3015084.11
Summary
Bibliographic description
Vol. [11] ; 74 cm. Running number: 7888. Provenance: faint pencil inscription on half-title: "Mquis d'olmond" [presumably James Wandesford Butler, 1st Marquess of Ormond (1777-1838)]. Binding: quarter-bound sheepskin with dark green pulled paste paper over pasteboards; gold-tooled red paper labels on spine with gilt title and part title; binder's ticket on front pastedown: 'No.45 Rue de la Harpe Tessier relieur doreur a Paris'.
Makers and roles
Edme-François Jomard (1777-1862) , editor Emperor Napoleon I, Emperor of France (1769–1821), creator Gaspard Monge (1746-1818), supervisor France. Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte, organisation