Recherches sur les antiquités romaines dans la vallée de la Moselle de Trèves[Research on the Roman Antiquities in the Moselle Valley at Trier]
First edition of the French translation by Grauert from the 1835 German first edition, specially revised by the author (hence the somewhat ambiguous designation of "new edition" on the title page and front board, as there was no previous French edition).
Illustrated with five engraved plates and eight vignette illustrations.
Contemporary half black calf with corners, spine with four raised bands decorated with gilt and blind fillets, slight rubbing to the spine, gilt fillet frames to the marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, original pink wrappers preserved, bookplate pasted to a pastedown, contemporary binding signed J. Pernot at the foot of the spine.
Scattered foxing.
Founder of the municipal library of Trier, Johann Hugo Wyttenbach (1767–1848) was a local scholar deeply involved in the documentation of Moselle heritage.
Copy from the library of the Ghent bibliophile Théodore de Valenzi (1813–1855), who had a particular preference for macaronic and burlesque writings, with his bookplate pasted to a pastedown.
Copy preserved in a contemporary binding by J. Pernot.