Autograph letter, signed, regarding the inscriptions on the ancient bronze crabs that once supported Cleopatra’s Needle.

by Gaston L. Feuardent

$750 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

New York, ca. 1881 . 7” x 8.5”, in ink, on Feuardent’s letterhead. CONDITION: Very good, slight toning. An intriguing letter by a renowned archaeologist and numismatist reporting on his effort to obtain the text of the inscriptions on the Roman crabs that once supported Cleopatra’s Needle, evidently in connection with the creation of a medal commemorating the

Found via Rare Books Intel, a search across rare-book dealers, auction houses and marketplaces worldwide.