GOFFAUX (François-Joseph)

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GOFFAUX (François-Joseph)
Main epochs of history, to serve as an explanatory Precis to the Time-table showing the origin, progress, duration and fall of Empires. Second edition, revised and corrected. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, 1807. In-8, 2 ff.n.ch., VIII and 134 pp.: marbled basane, gilt garland and fillet in frame, smooth spine decorated, red title coin, untrimmed (contemporary binding). The book is accompanied by a large, 24-part, full-colour, cloth-covered, fold-out painting (62 x 95 cm) entitled "Tableau chronométrique des époques principales de l'histoire depuis la prise de Troie jusqu'à nos jours" (Chronometric Table of the Main Epochs of History from the Capture of Troy to the Present Day), with a map of Europe showing the position of the peoples and the extent of the Roman Empire. Curious specimen of a binding combining book and case. The text and the picture are about the same thickness. The volume of text has been bound in the first part of the binding, the remaining part having been arranged as a case so that the folded painting can be slipped into it. The side and bottom edges of the "case" part were covered with blue speckled paper, giving the illusion at first glance of two books bound in one volume. A few freckles; traces of humidity on the canvas side of the painting. Small lacks of paper and skin.
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