[LORRAINE] - JOLLOIS (J.-B.-P.). Mémoire... - Lot 82 - Alexandre Landre Semur

[LORRAINE] - JOLLOIS (J.-B.-P.). Mémoire sur quelques Antiquités remarquables du Département des Vosges. Paris, Librairie départementale et étrangère de Debache, successor of Lance, 1843. In-folio half brown chagrin, spine richly decorated, author and title gilt (old binding). 40 plates out of text, and a large folding map of the Roman roads. Jean-Baptiste-Prosper Jollois (1776-1842), ordinary engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées, was a member of the French expedition to Egypt in 1798 with Bonaparte and took part in the writing of the Description de l'Égypte. Chief engineer in 1819, he was appointed in the Vosges, where he became a member of the Commission des Antiquités du Département, created in 1820. Between 1820 and 1822, he carried out excavations and various studies on the ancient sites of Grand (amphitheater and surroundings), Soulosse-sous-Saint-Elophe (rampart of the castrum), Bleurville (thermal complex), Bouzemont (Gallo-Roman villa), Lamerey (thermal baths) or Donon (sanctuary). It was during this period that he began his long collaboration with Charles Pensée. The latter was to provide until 1843 the drawings, watercolors and lithographs, essential to his numerous illustrated publications. VERY RARE Some scattered foxing. Expert : Jean-Louis Beauvais