DUCHALAIS Adolphe 1814-1854 - Lot 544

DUCHALAIS Adolphe 1814-1854 Description of Gaul coins from the Royal Library. Rollin Paris, 1846. First edition. In Octavo Ecu bound ½ brown leather (or percaline?) and marbled papers, gilt titles on edge 210x240mm of 487pp & IV plates Fine condition. Good condition. Description of the Gaulish Medals forming part of the Collections of the Royal Library, accompanied by additional Explanatory Notes. Work for which the Institut awarded him the 1846 prize. Jean-Baptiste Ursin Adolphe Duchalais was a French archivist, paleographer and numismatist. After graduating from the École des Chartes (1843), he became first employee in the medal department of the Bibliothèque Impériale. Duchalais was a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, vice-president of the Société de l'École des Chartes, and a member of the Société française de numismatique and the Société nationale des antiquaires de France. Ex Libris JRC de M