Voyage de Lesseps
Artist: Pierre-Philippe Choffard (French, 1730-1809)
Publisher: Imprimerie Royale, Paris, 1790
Binder: Blaizot
Author: Jean Baptiste Barthélemy, baron de, Lesseps (French, 1766-1834)
Date: 1790
Dimensions:
Book: H: 7 7/8 in. (200 mm); W: 5 in. (127 mm); Depth: 1 1/4 in. (32 mm);
Page: H: 7 9/16 in. (192 mm); W: 4 3/4 in. (120 mm)
Medium: Original prints: engravings (fold-out) and wood-engraved ornaments
Text: letterpress
Paper: white laid paper
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Straus Brothers
Object number: 1925.36A-B
Label Text:These volumes are Lesseps' account of an expedition in Russia, where the author served as the Royal interpreter, from September 1787 to October 1788. As most of Marie Antoinette's library was given to the Biblioeque National (in Paris) or the library at Versailles after her ill-fated death by guillotine, only a fraction of the books once in her possession are in collections outside of France.
DescriptionSewn gatherings case bound into red morroco bindings with gilt tooling stamped in gold with the arms of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793).
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