page_title: Description de l'Égypte
section_title: First edition (Imperial edition)
hierarchical_section_title: Description de l'Égypte / Editions / First edition (Imperial edition)
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece, vol. 1
context_page_description: The Description de l'Égypte was a series of publications, appearing first in 1809 and continuing until the final volume appeared in 1829, which aimed to comprehensively catalog all known aspects of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history. It is the collaborative work of about 160 civilian scholars and scientists, known popularly as the savants, who accompanied Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt in 1798 to 1801 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars, as well as about 2000 artists and technicians, including 400 engravers, who would later compile it into a full work.
  The full title of the work is Description de l'Égypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française. The cartographic section, Carte de l'Égypte, had approximately 50 plates of maps, was the first triangulation-based map of Egypt, Syria and Palestine, and was used as the basis for most maps of the region for much of the nineteenth century.
context_section_description: Book 01 (1809), Volume I - Antiquités, Descriptions.
  Book 02 (1818), Volume II - Antiquités, Descriptions.
  Book 03 (1809), Volume I - Antiquités, Mémoires.
  Book 04 (1818), Volume II - Antiquités, Mémoires.
  Book 05 (1809), Volume I - Etat Moderne.
  Book 06 (1822), Volume II - Etat Moderne.
  Book 07 (1822), Volume II - Etat Moderne (2´ Partie).
  Book 08 (1809), Volume I - Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 09 (1813), Volume II - Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 10 (18xx), Volume I - Préface et explication des planches.
  Book 11 (1809), Volume I - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 12 (18xx), Volume II - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 13 (18xx), Volume III - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 14 (18xx), Volume IV - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 15 (1822), Volume V - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 16 (1809), Volume I - Planches : Etat Moderne.
  Book 17 (1817), Volume II - Planches : Etat Moderne.
  Book 18 (1809), Volume I - Planches : Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 19 (1809), Volume II - Planches : Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 20 (1809), Volume IIbis - Planches : Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 21 (18xx), Volume I - Planches : Antiquités. ("Mammutfolio")
  Book 22 (18xx), Volume I - Planches : Etat Moderne. ("Mammutfolio")
  Book 23 (1818), Volume I - Planches : Carte géographiques et topographique.("Mammutfolio")
caption: Frontispiece to the first edition
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