[LOT]. DELPON (Jacques Antoine) (1778-1833). Description du - Lot 316

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[LOT]. DELPON (Jacques Antoine) (1778-1833). Description du - Lot 316
[LOT]. DELPON (Jacques Antoine) (1778-1833). Description du département du Lot. In French, handwritten on paper. France, ca. 1820-1830 170 pp. partly on blue paper, copied in ink with many corrections and erasures. Bound in blond half calf with corners, boards covered with combed marbled paper, spine with 5 nerves, leather titles. Dimensions : 245 x 370 mm. Manuscript, probably autograph, preparatory among others for the following publication : Statistique du département du Lot. Paris, Bachelier père et fils, Achille Désauges and Cahors, G. Richard, 1831, 2 vols. Jacques-Antoine Delpon (1778-1833), was a French politician and archaeologist. In 1816, with the Champollion brothers, he excavated the site of Capdenac le Haut. They found many ancient objects contemporary with the Gallic War. A lawyer, he practiced in Figeac where he was appointed imperial prosecutor in 1805. He was removed from office in 1823, then rehabilitated in 1830, appointed Master of Requests, made a knight of the Legion of Honor and elected deputy. From 1821 to 1831, he wrote the Statistique du département du Lot (Statistics of the Lot department) which remains an indispensable reference for the study of this department.
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