Charles-Antoine Jombert

Book II of La Vie des Peintres Flamands, Allemands et Hollandois, published by Charles-Antoine Jombert in 1754

Charles-Antoine Jombert (14 March 1712, Paris – 30 July 1784, Saint-Germain-en-Laye) 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]

Texts

Jombert's mark (from BEIC)

Receiverships and printed editions

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "HEIDI – GND 104326050".
  2. 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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