Charles-Antoine Jombert
Book II of La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois, published by Charles-Antoine Jombert in 1754
Charles-Antoine Jombert (1712–1784) was a French bookseller and publisher.
Biography
Charles-Antoine Jombert was born 1712 in Paris.[1]
Jombert belonged to a dynasty of booksellers. He became a bookseller when his father, Claude, who had been a bookseller since 1700, died in 1735.[2]
Charles-Antoine Jombert specialised exclusively in military works and was royal bookseller to the artillery and the Royal Engineers.[2] Later he bought much of Pierre-Jean Mariette's collection of prints and books, published an edition of the Fables of Jean de La Fontaine, and traded with all of Europe.[2]
He died 1784 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.[1]
Publications
- Descamps, Jean-Baptiste. La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois. Book I (1753) and book II (1754)
- Jombert, Charles-Antoine; Cochin, Charles-Nicolas (1755). Methode Pour Apprendre Le Dessein: Ou l'on donne les Regles générales de ce grand Art, & des préceptes pour en acquérir la connoissance, & s'y perfectionner en peu de tems. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert.
References
- 1 2 "HEIDI - GND 104326050".
- 1 2 3 Bousquet-Bressolier, C. (1997). "Charles-Antoine Jombert (1712-1784), a bookseller for both science and the humanities". Bulletin du bibliophile. 1997, No. 2: 299–333. ISSN 0399-9742. Lay summary – Refdoc.fr.
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