Description de l’Egypte, ou, Recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites en Egypte
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Books, Journals & Pamphlets
Description:
In pencil on recto above title: [indeciperable] Commision des monuments d'Egypte [underlined] / c., In pencil on verso: Bk6 / 012 / III. 1., and Yale proprietary stamp on verso.
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt
Subject (Topic):
Natural history --Egypt and Scientific expeditions
Blank versos not digitized., Preface by Adrianus Damman and Abraham de Bruyn, followed by a list of plates (to plate 52 only), and preceded by three poems (two by Damman, and one by George Buchanan)., Signatures: [a]1(engraved t.-p.)*-**4., The plates are numbered as follows: 1-8 (1 dated 1575), 8A-8D, 9-10, 1-E-10F, 11-16, 16G-16K, 17-18, 18L-180, 19-22, 22P-22R, 23-27, 27S-27K, 28-29, 29Y, 30, 30Z, 31-54., and The t.-p. is followed by 9 unnumbered plates, apparently inserted, viz.: (1) Neptune and Earth, with two equine heads; (2) full-page coat of arms; (3-9) armorial shields, without arms, (5) lettered "Excudebat Abraham D. Bruyn 1578".
Engraved t.-p., Map (16 x 24 cm, on sheet 27 x 27 cm, folded to 27 x 18 cm), bound in following leaf 26, with initials "F. P." in lower right-hand corner., Map: Orbis terrae compendiosa descriptio, ex ea, qùam ex Magna Vniuersali Mercatoris Rumoldus Mercator fieri curabat inhác cómodioré formá a Hieron: Porro redact. n.d. Scale not given., and World map engraved by Girolamo Porro after Gerhard Mercator.
Publisher:
s.n.,
Subject (Name):
Porro, Girolamo, 1520-1604 engraver and Quad, Matthias, 1557-1613
Subject (Topic):
Explorers--Portraits and Kings and rulers--Portraits