Ex libris Jacques Charles Wiggishoff

Numismatic bookplate by Jacques Charles Wiggishoff, etching by Louis Aristide Bertrand, France, second half of the 19th century, 88x62 mm.

Jacques Charles Wiggishoff (1842-1912), French scholar, industrialist and politician. He was mayor of the eighteenth arrondissement of Paris, president of the Société des collectionneurs d'ex-libris, founding president of the Société du Vieux Montmartre, member of the Commission du Vieux Paris, and author of several publications including Les ex-libris uniques ou rarissimes, published in 1909.

Very good condition. Very rare.