LAMBERT Charles Edouard 1794-1870 - Lot 548

LAMBERT Charles Edouard 1794-1870 Essai sur la numismatique Gauloise du Nord-Ouest de la Gaule. Derache. Paris-Bayeux 1844 and 1864. First edition. In quarto square. Antique binding ½ green leather (or Percale) gilt title. 163+138pp XII & XIV plates. Good condition. Unusual pagination (missing title page of Volume I, Frontispiece at beginning of Volume II...). Frontispiece: The Gaulish God CERNUNOS feeding stag & bull - Underneath Boar and Ox: Lithograph by Ramon in Caen at the beginning of Volume 2. Ex Libris: Ciani. Rare work (especially the 2 volumes together) which Engel & Serrure wrote was "one of the fundamental works to be consulted for the numismatics of Gaul". Charles Édouard Lambert was born in Saint-Lô in 1794 and died in Bayeux on July 23, 1870. He was a French librarian and archaeologist. Ex Libris JRC de M