Louis Allier de Hauteroche [Louis ALLIER DE HAUTEROCHE]
Mémoire sur une médaille anecdote de Polémon Ier, Roi de Pont[Memoir on an Anecdotal Medal of Polemon I, King of Pontus]
S. Berthoud|Cambrai 1826|13 x 20.3 cm|Reliure de l'éditeur
Rare first edition, illustrated at the beginning of the volume with an engraved line plate.
Publisher's Bradel binding in full boards covered with pink paper, smooth spine darkened, cherry-red calf lettering-piece, boards soiled.
Only three copies recorded in the CCF (BnF, Institut, Sainte-Geneviève).
The sole edition of this short monograph devoted to what was then the only known representation of this Hellenistic monarch, who ruled successively over Pontus, the Bosporus and Armenia.
The numismatist Louis Allier de Hauteroche (1766-1827) had himself served as French consul at Heraclea Pontica at the end of the eighteenth century.
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