Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

France, Expédition du Talisman, 1883, a light bronze award medal by J.-B. Daniel-Dupuis for the Académie des Sciences, figure of Science being led by Neptune, rev. legend, président m.a. milne edwards, etc, 68mm (PBE –; Coll. R. Marx 309; BDM I, 662; cf. Baldwin Argentum February 2006, 458). Extremely fine and very rare; in maroon fitted case of issue (£80-100)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Art Medals formed by Hans-P. Wipfler.

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Plate IX. Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835-1900), naturalist, professor of zoology in Paris, led several expeditions between 1880 and 1883 to study marine life in the Bay of Biscay, off the Azores, the coasts of Senegal, Corsica and elsewhere