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The French Revolution Volume, in Original State
Lenormant, Charles, Paul Delaroche and Henriquel Dupont. TRÉSOR DE NUMISMATIQUE ET DE GLYPTIQUE, OU RECUEIL GÉNÉRAL DE MÉDAILLES, MONNAIES, PIERRES GRAVÉES, BAS-RELIEFS, ETC., TANT ANCIENS QUE MODERNES, LES PLUS INTÉRESSANS SOUS LE RAPPORT DE L'ART ET DE L'HISTOIRE, GRAVÉ PAR LES PROCÉDÉS DE M. ACHILLE COLLAS. [Volume XVII]: MÉDAILLES DE LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE, DEPUIS L'OUVERTURE DES ÉTATS-GÉNÉRAUX (5 MAI 1789) JUSQU'A LA PROCLAMATION DE L'EMPIRE (18 MAI 1804). A Paris: Chez Rittner et Goupil, 1835–1836. First edition. Folio [45 by 30.5 cm], as originally published in 24 parts, each part housed in the original yellow printed paper covers. (4), 132 pages; 96 exceptionally fine plates produced using the medal ruling machine technique, with tissue guards, depicting medals and jetons. Original paper covers worn, particularly at spines, but complete and intact. Plates remarkably free from the foxing that is generally seen in this title. Very good, overall. A rare survival. The complete French Revolution volume, as it was originally published, unbound, with loose plates and housed in paper wraps. The Trésor volumes are often enough seen in somewhat simple red boards with a lettered spine label that it seems safe to refer to that as the original binding, but it would seem that each separate fascicle was also distributed in wraps, as here, for those who wished to have their copies bound privately. David Block discussed this work in the Summer 1985 issue of The Asylum: "The great illustrated catalogs of Napoleonic medals are part of Charles Lenormant's Trésor de numismatique et de glyptique... The volume containing medals of the French revolution first appeared in 1836, followed several years later by a volume covering the First Empire ... the editors published for the first time many medals from imperial times." The text in this volume was written by George-Julien Fellmann, under the general editorship of Lenormant. Clain-Stefanelli 14551*. Engel et Serrure 3973. Grierson 255: "Bon recueil de planches et bon texte descriptif. Classé essentiellement par pays et très utile pour les séries françaises, surtout pour la Révolution française et pour Napoléon."
Lenormant, Charles, Paul Delaroche and Henriquel Dupont. TRÉSOR DE NUMISMATIQUE ET DE GLYPTIQUE, OU RECUEIL GÉNÉRAL DE MÉDAILLES, MONNAIES, PIERRES GRAVÉES, BAS-RELIEFS, ETC., TANT ANCIENS QUE MODERNES, LES PLUS INTÉRESSANS SOUS LE RAPPORT DE L'ART ET DE L'HISTOIRE, GRAVÉ PAR LES PROCÉDÉS DE M. ACHILLE COLLAS. [Volume XVII]: MÉDAILLES DE LA RÉVOLUTION FRANÇAISE, DEPUIS L'OUVERTURE DES ÉTATS-GÉNÉRAUX (5 MAI 1789) JUSQU'A LA PROCLAMATION DE L'EMPIRE (18 MAI 1804). A Paris: Chez Rittner et Goupil, 1835–1836. First edition. Folio [45 by 30.5 cm], as originally published in 24 parts, each part housed in the original yellow printed paper covers. (4), 132 pages; 96 exceptionally fine plates produced using the medal ruling machine technique, with tissue guards, depicting medals and jetons. Original paper covers worn, particularly at spines, but complete and intact. Plates remarkably free from the foxing that is generally seen in this title. Very good, overall. A rare survival. The complete French Revolution volume, as it was originally published, unbound, with loose plates and housed in paper wraps. The Trésor volumes are often enough seen in somewhat simple red boards with a lettered spine label that it seems safe to refer to that as the original binding, but it would seem that each separate fascicle was also distributed in wraps, as here, for those who wished to have their copies bound privately. David Block discussed this work in the Summer 1985 issue of The Asylum: "The great illustrated catalogs of Napoleonic medals are part of Charles Lenormant's Trésor de numismatique et de glyptique... The volume containing medals of the French revolution first appeared in 1836, followed several years later by a volume covering the First Empire ... the editors published for the first time many medals from imperial times." The text in this volume was written by George-Julien Fellmann, under the general editorship of Lenormant. Clain-Stefanelli 14551*. Engel et Serrure 3973. Grierson 255: "Bon recueil de planches et bon texte descriptif. Classé essentiellement par pays et très utile pour les séries françaises, surtout pour la Révolution française et pour Napoléon."