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

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 distinction, joined the Commission d'exploration scientifique d'Algérie (1839-1850), where he stayed from 1830 to 1835, from 1839 to 1845, and again from 1850 to 1851.

He was successively in charge of the drawings (2,500 drawings produced), then associate member, and finally full member of the Commission. The philologist Charles-Alphonse-Léon Renier (1809-1885) was entrusted, between 1850 and 1852, with collecting the Roman inscriptions of Algeria.

Wet stamp of Léon Renier at the foot of the title-page.