![BARROIS, Joseph (1784-1855). Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d'après les monuments. Paris: Firmin Didot frères [for the author], sold by Didot, Jules Renouard and Techener, 1850.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01595_0924_000(102652).jpg?w=1)
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BARROIS, Joseph (1784-1855). Dactylologie et langage primitif restitués d'après les monuments. Paris: Firmin Didot frères [for the author], sold by Didot, Jules Renouard and Techener, 1850.
Large 4o (310 x 225 mm). LARGE-WOVE-PAPER ISSUE. 61 lithographic plates, including 2 in color, reproducing manuscripts, lapidary inscriptions, etc. (slight foxing).
PRESENTATION BINDING, COMMISSIONED BY THE AUTHOR FROM THOMPSON, FOR THE COMTE DE CHAMBORD AS "HENRI V": richly gold-tooled green morocco, dense fanfare design on covers and smooth spine, crowned initials VHV in the center, red morocco doublures semé with crowned fleurs-de-lis, vellum free endleaves, gilt edges. Cloth folding box.
Provenance: Henri-Charles-Ferdinand-Marie-Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord (1820-83), his initials as pretender King Henry V of France, on the binding; long AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION by Joseph Barrois on an inserted vellum leaf -- Don Jaime de Bourbon, duc de Madrid (1870-1931, Chambord's legatee), red library stamp from Frohsdorf Castle (near Salzburg) -- Maggs Bros, Catalogue d'un choix de très beaux livres, Empire, Restauration no. 661 (1938), item 172, pl. LIII.
FIRST EDITION of Barrois' most eccentric work, claiming for the Phoenicians the original human language and the derivation from its digital alphabet of the Lappic, Sanskrit, Chinese and native Mexican scripts. The author was an uncompromising supporter of the Bourbon monarchy; his presentation inscription begins: "á Henry V, Sire, Puisque la France n'est pas encore tout entiere Suppliante aux pieds de votre Majesté, c'est l'irrécusable preuve que pour le moment les principes primordiaux demeurent ajournés..."
The unsigned binding is a masterly pastiche of the fully developed fanfare style. Thompson, whose first names and initials appear to be unrecorded, was a Parisian binder of English origin, who did much work on Barrois' stolen manuscripts and altered numerous manuscripts for the notorious book thief, Guglielmo Libri. The present binding demonstrates great technical excellence, which must be credited to Thompson's doreur, Marius Michel père. FINE CONDITION. BBB Wittockiana 33.
Large 4
PRESENTATION BINDING, COMMISSIONED BY THE AUTHOR FROM THOMPSON, FOR THE COMTE DE CHAMBORD AS "HENRI V": richly gold-tooled green morocco, dense fanfare design on covers and smooth spine, crowned initials VHV in the center, red morocco doublures semé with crowned fleurs-de-lis, vellum free endleaves, gilt edges. Cloth folding box.
Provenance: Henri-Charles-Ferdinand-Marie-Dieudonné d'Artois, duc de Bordeaux, comte de Chambord (1820-83), his initials as pretender King Henry V of France, on the binding; long AUTOGRAPH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION by Joseph Barrois on an inserted vellum leaf -- Don Jaime de Bourbon, duc de Madrid (1870-1931, Chambord's legatee), red library stamp from Frohsdorf Castle (near Salzburg) -- Maggs Bros, Catalogue d'un choix de très beaux livres, Empire, Restauration no. 661 (1938), item 172, pl. LIII.
FIRST EDITION of Barrois' most eccentric work, claiming for the Phoenicians the original human language and the derivation from its digital alphabet of the Lappic, Sanskrit, Chinese and native Mexican scripts. The author was an uncompromising supporter of the Bourbon monarchy; his presentation inscription begins: "á Henry V, Sire, Puisque la France n'est pas encore tout entiere Suppliante aux pieds de votre Majesté, c'est l'irrécusable preuve que pour le moment les principes primordiaux demeurent ajournés..."
The unsigned binding is a masterly pastiche of the fully developed fanfare style. Thompson, whose first names and initials appear to be unrecorded, was a Parisian binder of English origin, who did much work on Barrois' stolen manuscripts and altered numerous manuscripts for the notorious book thief, Guglielmo Libri. The present binding demonstrates great technical excellence, which must be credited to Thompson's doreur, Marius Michel père. FINE CONDITION. BBB Wittockiana 33.