Author: Paris, Edmond.
Title: Le Musée de Marine du Louvre. Histoire, description. construction, representation, statistique des navires a rames & a voiles d'aprés des modèles et les dessins des galeries du Musée du Louvre.
Description: Paris, J. Rothschild, 1883, VII,[1],153 pp. [200] b./w. figs, tables & 60 tinted phototype plates. Contemp. darkblue hmor., ribbed spine, marbled covers & endpapers, t.e.g. Large folio. - Textpages sl. foxed in blank margins (preliminary lvs also sl. foxed in text); a few sl. rubbed spots on backstrip.Printed by Georges Chamelot in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies (nr. 174). - Very good copy of this rare late nineteenth century overview work of the collection of the Maritime Museum of the Louvre. - - In 1827, after the Bourbon Restoration, Charles X ordered a Naval museum to be opened at the Louvre. The task was given to Pierre Zédé. In 1871, admiral François-Edmond Pâris became curator, and had over 400 models of small crafts indigenous to different locations of the French Empire constructed. Pâris (6 March 1806 in Paris - 8 April 1893 in Paris) was a French admiral, notable for his contribution to naval engineering during the rise of the steam, for his books, and for his role in organising the Musée national de la Marine.

Keywords: Navigation Museum Scheepvaart Musea