Sale: 328 / Rare Books, Nov. 19./20. 2007 in Hamburg Lot 516

 
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Description de l'Égypte
Description de l'Égypte, 4. Band. 1817.
Estimate:
€ 350 / $ 378
Sold:
€ 504 / $ 544

(incl. surcharge)
Description de l'Égypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui on été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée Francaise. Antiquités, planches. Tome quatrième. With 40 copper plates (of 72). Paris, L'Imprimerie Royale 1817. Contemp. cardboard. Large folio. 1 l.
Graesse II, 365. - Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 244. - Blackmer 476. - First edition of the volume of plates IV (of 5) to the Antiquités from the extensive and monumental publication of the French army's expedition to Egypt under general Bonaparte in the years 1798-1800. - With surroundings, footprints, pilar constructions etc. from the templegrounds in Dendera, Abydos, Achmin, Fayum and others. - Partly slightly foxed and waterstained. Binding with traces of scratches, spine damaged.




516
Description de l'Égypte
Description de l'Égypte, 4. Band. 1817.
Estimate:
€ 350 / $ 378
Sold:
€ 504 / $ 544

(incl. surcharge)