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 m...
Alternative Title:
Recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'éxpédition de l'armée française
Description:
All volumes except double elephant folios have half-title: Description de l'Égypte.
Publisher:
De Imprimerie impériale
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt. and Egypt
Subject (Topic):
Natural history, Scientific expeditions, Civilization, Language and culture, Art, Music, Antiquities, and Atlases
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 m...
Alternative Title:
Recueil de observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'éxpédition de l'armée française
Description:
All volumes except double elephant folios have half-title: Description de l'Égypte.
Publisher:
De Imprimerie impériale
Subject (Geographic):
Egypt. and Egypt
Subject (Topic):
Natural history, Scientific expeditions, Civilization, Language and culture, Art, Music, Antiquities, and Atlases
BEIN 1976 1233: Imperfect: map "New Guinea, &c." [no. 2 of America] wanting. Map "Virginia and Maryland" [no. 19] bound following "Carolina and Bermudos" [no. 20]. Additional map, "Asiae antiquis simae ... ex aevi antiqui tenebris eruit Wilhelmus Stuk...
BEIN 1976 Folio 2: Imperfect: wormed, with no loss of text; holes in map "Universi orbis seu terreni globi ..." Misbound: gatherings x-y bound after gathering z. No. 148 in H. C. Taylor coll.
Publisher:
Venundantur Antverpiae in platea vulgò dicta, de Catelyne Vesten, ad intersigne Floreni aurati, in aedibus Gerardi de Iode, typis Gerardi Smits
BEIN 1976 1233: Map of the English Channel [24] bound between Italy [19] and Lombardy [20]. No. 1 of 2 works bound together.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Nicholson at the King's-Arms in Little Britain, Benj. Barker and Charles King ..., Benj. Tooke ..., Hen. Clements ..., R. Parker and Ralph Smith under the Royal-Exchange ...
Imperfect: map nos. 62-67 from ms. table of contents wanting ("North America / Berry," "English plantations in America / Morden," "Virginia, Maryland, Pensylvania [sic], New Jersey," "The Improv'd parts of Pensylvania [sic]," "Carolina," and "The seat...
