Paris,Edmond. — 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.

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.