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NAPOLEON'S EGYPT
Description de l'Egypte. Ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, 38 vol. (24 text vol. in 26, 12 atlas vol. in elephant folio), comprising (i) Antiquities, 5 vol.: coloured frontispiece, 3 additional engraved plates ('Medailles trouvees en Syrie,' 'Tableau synoptique des constellations' Plate A, 'Produits de la machine a graver'), 16 numbered engraved plates of the Rosetta Stone (on 8 sheets), 419 numbered engraved plates, pl. 103 of Etat Moderne (misbound); (ii) Etat Moderne, 2 vol.: 1 additional engraved plate ('Canevas trigonometrique du Kaire/d'Alexandrie'), 169 numbered engraved plates (see pl 103 bound in Antiquities V); (iii) Histoire Naturelle, 3 vol.: 244 engraved numbered or lettered plates; (iv) Atlas Geographique [spine title]: 52 engraved maps and plates; (v) Grande Atlas: engraved title, featuring portrait of Louis XVIII, and 63 oversized plates from the above collation, bound in a separate 12th atlas volume, minor occasional foxing to margins, a few plates soiled, contemporary quarter morocco [Atabey 343 (for 1st edition); Blackmer 476 (for 1st edition); Catalogue of the Egyptological library and other books from the collection of the late Charles Edwin Wilbour, Brooklyn, 1924, p 178-185; Hilmy I, pp 239-245 (for 1st edition); Munier Tables de la Description de l'Égypte], 8vo (215 x 130mm.), and atlas folio (670 x 540mm.), Paris, C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1821-1830
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THE RARE 'PANCKOUCKE' EDITION, COMPLETE WITH ALL PLATES, OF THE MONUMENTAL COLLECTION DETAILING NAPOLEON'S EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION. The first scientific survey of Egypt, and one of the most beautiful of the nineteenth century plate books, Description de l'Egypte forms a 'sort of living archive for the expedition' (Said, Orientalism, p 144). This landmark collection features the combined work of 150 of Napoleon's 'savants,' including Monge, Berthollet, Fourier, Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Redoute, and Savigny.
The first edition appeared beginning in 1809, and this second edition ('Panckoucke Edition') was begun nearly before the first was completed and reproduces the plates of the first in full, without the hand colouring. The plates are here complete, at times variously bound, but including the hand-coloured frontispiece often missing.
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Description de l'Egypte. Ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, 38 vol. (24 text vol. in 26, 12 atlas vol. in elephant folio), comprising (i) Antiquities, 5 vol.: coloured frontispiece, 3 additional engraved plates ('Medailles trouvees en Syrie,' 'Tableau synoptique des constellations' Plate A, 'Produits de la machine a graver'), 16 numbered engraved plates of the Rosetta Stone (on 8 sheets), 419 numbered engraved plates, pl. 103 of Etat Moderne (misbound); (ii) Etat Moderne, 2 vol.: 1 additional engraved plate ('Canevas trigonometrique du Kaire/d'Alexandrie'), 169 numbered engraved plates (see pl 103 bound in Antiquities V); (iii) Histoire Naturelle, 3 vol.: 244 engraved numbered or lettered plates; (iv) Atlas Geographique [spine title]: 52 engraved maps and plates; (v) Grande Atlas: engraved title, featuring portrait of Louis XVIII, and 63 oversized plates from the above collation, bound in a separate 12th atlas volume, minor occasional foxing to margins, a few plates soiled, contemporary quarter morocco [Atabey 343 (for 1st edition); Blackmer 476 (for 1st edition); Catalogue of the Egyptological library and other books from the collection of the late Charles Edwin Wilbour, Brooklyn, 1924, p 178-185; Hilmy I, pp 239-245 (for 1st edition); Munier Tables de la Description de l'Égypte], 8vo (215 x 130mm.), and atlas folio (670 x 540mm.), Paris, C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1821-1830
Footnotes:
THE RARE 'PANCKOUCKE' EDITION, COMPLETE WITH ALL PLATES, OF THE MONUMENTAL COLLECTION DETAILING NAPOLEON'S EGYPTIAN EXPEDITION. The first scientific survey of Egypt, and one of the most beautiful of the nineteenth century plate books, Description de l'Egypte forms a 'sort of living archive for the expedition' (Said, Orientalism, p 144). This landmark collection features the combined work of 150 of Napoleon's 'savants,' including Monge, Berthollet, Fourier, Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire, Redoute, and Savigny.
The first edition appeared beginning in 1809, and this second edition ('Panckoucke Edition') was begun nearly before the first was completed and reproduces the plates of the first in full, without the hand colouring. The plates are here complete, at times variously bound, but including the hand-coloured frontispiece often missing.
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •
• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.
For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
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