page_title: Description de l'Égypte
section_title: Second edition (Panckoucke edition)
hierarchical_section_title: Description de l'Égypte / Editions / Second edition (Panckoucke edition)
caption_attribution_description: English: Frontispiece to The Description of Egypt, a book in the public domain for some time and published by the French government from 1809-1823.
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 (1821), Volume I - Tome Premier Antiquités-Descriptions.
  Book 02 (1821), Volume II - Tome Deuxième Antiquités-Descriptions.
  Book 03 (1821), Volume III - Tome Troisième Antiquités-Descriptions.
  Book 04 (1822), Volume IV - Tome Quatrième Antiquités-Descriptions.
  Book 05 (1829), Volume V - Tome Cinquième Antiquités-Descriptions.
  Book 06 (1822), Volume VI - Tome Sixième Antiquités-Mémoires.
  Book 07 (1822), Volume VII - Tome Septième Antiquités-Mémoires.
  Book 08 (1822), Volume VIII - Tome Huitième Antiquités-Mémoires.
  Book 09 (1829), Volume IX - Tome Neuvième Antiquités-Mémoires et Descriptions.
  Book 10 (1823), Volume X - Explication Des Planches, D'Antiquités.
  Book 11 (1822), Volume XI - Tome Onzième Etat Moderne.
  Book 12 (1822), Volume XII - Tome Douzième Etat Moderne.
  Book 13 (1823), Volume XIII - Tome Treizième Etat Moderne.
  Book 14 (1826), Volume XIV - Tome Quatorzième Etat Moderne.
  Book 15 (1826), Volume XV - Tome Quinzième Etat Moderne.
  Book 16 (1825), Volume XVI - Tome Seizième Etat Moderne.
  Book 17 (1824), Volume XVII - Tome Dix-Septième Etat Moderne.
  Book 18 (1826), Volume XVIII - Tome Dix-Huitième Etat Moderne.
  Book 19 (1829), Volume XVIII - Tome Dix-Huitième (2´ Partie) Etat Moderne.
  Book 20 (1830), Volume XVIII - Tome Dix-Huitième (3´ Partie) Etat Moderne.
  Book 21 (1824), Volume XIX - Tome Dix-Neuvième Histoire Naturelle, Botanique-Météorologie.
  Book 22 (1825), Volume XX - Tome Vingtième Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 23 (1826), Volume XXI - Tome Vingt-Unième Histoire Naturelle, Minieralogie - Zoologie.
  Book 24 (1827), Volume XXII - Tome Vingt-Deuxième Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. Animaux Invertébrés (suite).
  Book 25 (1828), Volume XXIII - Tome Vingt-Troisième Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie. Animaux Invertébrés (suite). Animaux Venteures.
  Book 26 (1829), Volume XXIV - Tome Vingt-Quatrième Histoire Naturelle, Zoologie.
  Book 27 (1820), Volume I - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 28 (182x), Volume II - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 29 (182x), Volume III - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 30 (182x), Volume IV - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 31 (1823), Volume V - Planches : Antiquités.
  Book 32 (1822), Volume I - Planches : Etat Moderne.
  Book 33 (1823), Volume II - Planches : Etat Moderne.
  Book 34 (1826), Volume I - Planches : Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 35 (1826), Volume II - Planches : Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 36 (1826), Volume IIbis - Planches : Histoire Naturelle.
  Book 37 (1826), Volume I - Planches : Atlas géographique.
caption: Frontispiece to the second edition
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