Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Esquisse historique d'une glorification nationale, ou, Musée symbolique et permanent de la nationalité française depuis son origine / par M. Barbier (Louis-Edme). Décembre 1852.

Accession number
PML 195955
Creator
Barbier, Edme-Louis, active 1815-1854.
Published
Paris : Typographie Plon frères, [1853]
Description
iii, 49 p., [2] leaves of plates (1 folding) : ill., plan ; 28 cm
Notes
Proposal to erect a museum complex along the Champs-Elyées to celebrate the imperial ambitions of Napoleon III as well as French achievements in arts, literature, science, and colonial aggrandizement; illustrated with a folding plan of the complex and a
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt with Napoleonic emblems, including a semé of bees and a sunburst enclosing a crowned initial N; by V.A. Despierres.
Inscriptions/Markings
Presentation inscription on t.p. from the author to the emperor's binder, V.A. Despierres.
Classification
Century
Department