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VICQ D'AZYR (Félix) and Dom Germain POIRIER. Instruction sur - Lot 249
VICQ D'AZYR (Félix) and Dom Germain POIRIER. Instruction sur la manière d'inventorier et de conserver, dans toute l'étendue de la République, tous les objets qui peuvent servir aux arts, aux sciences et à l'enseignement. Paris, De l'Imprimerie nationale, L'an second de la République [1794]. In-4, half marbled cloth bradel, green title page (Binding circa 1900).
First edition.
Important instruction issued in 1794 by the Commission temporaire des arts pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine national sous la Révolution (bibliothèques nationale et départementales, musées, etc.): instituted by the Comité d'instruction publique in frimaire an II, the Commission was charged with overseeing the execution of numerous decrees concerning the conservation of objects of science and art, their transportation, their reunion in suitable repositories, their description and classification.
The work includes examples of inventory notebooks, library cataloguing methods, etc.
Title page damaged and rebacked, dampstaining to last four leaves.
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