Author: Charvet, J. (Jean-Baptiste Jules).
Title: Description des collections de Sceaux-Matrices de M. E. Dongé. Préface.
Description: Paris, Chez l'Auteur, 1872. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Crown quarto. Pp. xxxi. Half-title present. With numerous finely engraved illustrations of medals, some rather large and in rich detail. Bound in the original printed wrappers, medal illustration on front, beautifully illustrated publisher's ad on back. Tall, untrimmed, unsophisticated copy, dog-eared and bit shabby, preserved entirely in the original state with all the beautiful illustrations in fine condition. ~ Rare first issue of first edition of this stand-alone publication of the Preface to Charvet's important work on seals, published by the author himself. 006-5 .

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