Description de l'Égypte, ou, recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'éxpédition de l'armée française, /
France.Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte.
Monge, Gaspard,1746-1818.
NapoleonI,Emperor of the French,1769-1821.
Chabrol de Volvic, Gilbert-Joseph-Gaspard,comte de,1773-1843,former owner.NLS
A Paris : De l'Imprimerie Impériale [and] l'Imprimerie Royale,
[1809-22]
The first comprehensive description of ancient and modern Egypt, compiled by the 165 members of the Institut de l'Égypte established by Napoleon to accompany his expedition to Egypt in 1798-1801. This exhaustive survey of all aspects of ancient and modern life in Egypt was carried out under the supervision of the mathematician Gaspard Monge, the appointed President of the new Institute (of which Napoleon was Vice-President).
Title and imprint taken from Antiquités, mémoires. Tome premier and Antiquités. Planches. Tome cinquième.
Printed between 1809 and 1822. Volumes printed between 1809 and 1812 are Imprimerie Impériale and those printed between 1817 and 1822 are Imprimerie Royale.
All volumes except double elephant folios have half-title: Description de l'Égypte.
Some text in Arabic and Greek.
For more detailed catalogue entries of each section please see indivdiual records for: Préface historique, Antiquités, État moderne, Histoire naturelle and Carte topographique de l'Égypte.
Préface historique, 1 v. (atlas fol.) -- Antiquitiés: Descriptions, 2 v. (fol.); Mémoires, 2 v. (fol.); Planches, 7 v. (5 atlas fol. and 2 double elephant fol.) -- État moderne: 2 v. in 3 (fol.); Planches, 2 v. (atlas fol. plus part of the second volume of double elephant fol. Antiquitiés planches) -- Histoire naturelle: 2 v. (fol.); Planches, 2 v. in 3. (atlas fol.) (Vol. II, pt. 2 has no t.p.) -- Carte topographique de l'Égypte, 1 v. (double elephant fol.)
The first comprehensive description of ancient and modern Egypt, compiled by the 165 members of the Institut de l'Égypte established by Napoleon to accompany his expedition to Egypt in 1798-1801. This exhaustive survey of all aspects of ancient and modern life in Egypt was carried out under the supervision of the mathematician Gaspard Monge, the appointed President of the new Institute (of which Napoleon was Vice-President).
Contemporary French quarter red straight-grained morocco, red morocco-grained paper, covers with gilt roll-tooled borders, smooth spines gilt-lettered in compartments.
Some leaves bear the following pencil inscriptions: "Chabrol", "Chabrele" and "M. de Chabrel". Possibly le comte de Chabrol.
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