UNSEEN /// ÉMERIC-DAVID (Toussaint-Bernard). Historical... Lot 69

UNSEEN /// ÉMERIC-DAVID (Toussaint-Bernard). Historical discourse on modern painting. First speech containing the abridged history of this art from Constantine to the beginning of the thirteenth century. Paris, from the Impr. of J.B. Sajou, 1812. In-8, 244 p., half-fauve later basane, spine with 4 nerves, black basane title-piece, small vellum corners (snagging at the head-cap, sustained brown spots, missing in the margin of the false-title and the title). Extract from the Magasin Encyclopédique (May 1812). Following, by the same author: Choix de notices sur des tableaux du Musée Napoléon. Extract from the Musée-Français. Paris, s.n., 1812. 58 pp. (the last one misquoted as 66). Handwritten ex-dono in Italian dated 1813.