Coste, Jean Jacques Marie Cyprien Victor (1807-1873)

L'illustre Monsieur Coste, trois fois illustré. An album of MSS., printed material and drawings, by or related to this famous zoologist.

1859-1887

1 volume 84 ll. 4to. 251/2 x 191/2 cm. Original crimson quarter-calf binding.

Purchased 1930.

The compiler of this album seems to have been Hubert Eléonore Napoleon Philibert Philippe Alfred Guichon de Grandpont, whose initials 'A.G. de G.' are found in several places, together with entries by his hand. He was Commissaire Général de la Marine at Brest. Coste was a member of the Académie de Médecine, was elected to the chair of comparative anatomy at the Collège de France in 1844, and was President of the Académie des Sciences in 1871.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).