A Guide to the Exhibition Rooms of the Departments of Natural History and Antiquities of the British Museum + Nouveau Guide du Musee Royal Bourbon + Notice des Principaux Monuments exposes dans les Galeries Provisoires du Musee d’Antiquites Egyptiennes a Boulaq + Royal Institution of Great Britain on Greek Coins as Illustrating Greek Art. FOUR PARTS IN ONE.

Panizi, Sir Anthony. 1797-1879 / Stanislas d’Aloe / Mariette-Bey, Reginald Stuart Poole (Editors).

Book ID: 33791

£500.00

8vo. iv, 117 pp, 1 folding plan / vii, 294 pp, [2], 1 frontis & 2 plates hors text, / 304 pp, plus 4 pp, contemporary half-calf with marbled boards, rubbed, title gilt on raised spine, marbled endpapers, pencil annotations in margin & on blank leaves, printed by order of the Trustees, London 1863 / L’Imprimerie Virgile, Naples 1854 / Imprimerie Francaise Moures, Alexandria, 1864.

Synopsis

“ This present “Guide” gives a concise account of the contents of the exhibition rooms in the several departments of Zoology, Minerals, Fossils, Botany, and Antiquities, in the British Museum, and is intended to supply such information as is necessary for the generality of visitors to the collections, in addition to that which is furnished by the labels attached to the various objects,