Jacques Boucher de Perthes 320832
Antiquités celtiques et antédiluviennes. Volume I. Mémoire sur l'industrie primitive et les arts à leur origine. Avec 80 planches représentant 1600 figures
Treuttel & Wurtz, Derache, Dumoulin, Didron, 1847. Ed./Druk: 1e druk. Contemp. shagreen, marbled paper on boards. Scarce first volume of the first edition of this key text for the history of archaeology as a discipline, but also for the history of ideas and science, by J. Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868), considered today as one of the 'fathers of prehistory'. Illustrated with 80 full-page plates showing hundreds of prehistoric tools and hand-axes. Volumes 2 & 3 were published 1857-1864. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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