Adolphe Hedwige Alphonse DELAMARE
Recherches sur l'ancienne ville de Lambèse. Par M. de la Marre [sic]. Inscriptions antiques recueillies par le même sur la route de Constantine à Lambèse, dans cette dernière vill, et aux environs. Avec des notes explicatives par Léon Renie[Researches on the Ancient City of Lambaesis. By M. de la Marre [sic]. Ancient Inscriptions Collected by the Same on the Road from Constantine to Lambaesis, in the Latter City, and in Its Vicinity. With Explanatory Notes by Léon Renier]
Imprimerie de Crapelet|Paris 1850|13.5 x 22.5 cm|Relié
First edition printed in a small number of copies of this offprint from the Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de France, vol. XX.
The work is illustrated at the beginning of the volume with two folding plates engraved by Charles Oury after drawings by Delamare, gathering several figures.
Contemporary half black shagreen, spine with four raised bands decorated with blind fillets and gilt fleurons, minor rubbing to the joints, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, contemporary binding.
Foxing.
A former student of the École Polytechnique and an officer, Delamarre (1793-1861), who adopts a particle on the title-page for greater distinct
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