Description des médailles et antiquités composant le cabinet de M. le baron Behr, ancien ministre de Belgique à Constantinople

First edition describing 1,271 objects, illustrated with 3 full-page line-engraved plates.

Inscribed on the upper cover with a signed autograph presentation from François Lenormant to the eighth Duke of Luynes (1802–1867).

Minor foxing, light creasing to the upper cover.

One of the early works by the young François Lenormant (1837–1883), whose first publication appeared when he was only 14 years old.

The Belgian diplomat François-Jean-Désiré Behr (born 1793 in Maastricht) was also the author of a Histoire des temps héroïques de la Grèce (1856).