<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>Description de l'Égypte, ou, recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'éxpédition de l'armée française,</dc:title><dc:creator>France. Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte</dc:creator><dc:date>1809-28.</dc:date><dc:language>fre</dc:language><dc:description>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).</dc:description><dc:description>All volumes except double elephant folios have half-title: Description de l'Égypte.</dc:description><dc:description>Some text in Arabic and Greek.</dc:description><dc:description>For detailed list of contents see G. Guémard. Bibliographie critique de la Commission des sciences et arts ... d'Égypte ... Le Caire, 1936. p. 76-82.</dc:description><dc:description>BEIN 1971 Folio 601: Atlases of plates. Bound as: I:1 (Antiquités. Planches. Tome 1; [87] plates in v.; double elephant folio plates bound in I:6); I:2 (Antiquités. Planches. Tome 2; [61] plates in v.; double elephant folios bound in I:6); I:3: Antiquités. Planches. Tome 3; [43] plates in v.; double elephant folio plates bound in I:7); I:4: (Antiquités. Planches. Tome 4; [61] plates in v.; double elephant folio plates bound in I:7); I:5: (Antiquités. Planches. Tome 5; [89] plates in v.; double elephant folio plates bound in I:7); I:6 (double elephant folio plates of Antiquités. Planches. Tome 1 and 2; [44] plates); I:7 (double elephant folio plates of Antiquités, Planches. Tome 3-5, and État moderne. Planches 1 and 2. Tome 1; [66] plates); II:1 (État moderne. Planches. Tome 1; [76] plates); II:2 (État moderne. Planches. Tome 2; [83] plates); III:1 (Histoire naturelle. Planches. Tome 1; [62] plates); III:2.1 (Histoire naturelle. Planches. Tome 2 (part 1); [105] plates); III:2.2 (Histoire naturelle. Planches. Tome 1 (part 2); [77] plates).</dc:description><dc:description>SML, AOS Folio TA F 83: Bound as: Description des antiquités d'Athribis, de Thmuis et de plusieurs nomes du Delta oriental (Antiquités - Description, tome 2, chapitre XXII) ; Description générale de Memphis et des Pyramides (Antiquités - Description, tome 2, chapitre 18) ; Remarques et recherches sur les pyramides d'Égypte (Antiquités - Mémoires, tome 2) ; Description d'Antinoé (Antiquités - Description, tome 2, chapitre 15) ; Index géographique, ou, liste générale des noms de lieux de l'Égypte (État moderne, tome 2) ; Explication sommaire de deux planches relatives à la géographie comparée (from atlas?) ; Description des antiquités du Nome Arsinoïte, aujourd'hui Le Fayoum (Antiquités - Description, tome 2, chapitre 17) ; Description des antiquités de la ville et de la province du Kaire (Antiquités - Description, tome 2, chapitre 20) - 2. Description des antiquités de l'Heptanomide (Antiquités - Description, tome 2, chapitre XVI) -- 5. Plates from 5th volumes of plates.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>