Live auction - Lot 559
[Egypt]
Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte. Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une notice sur l'auteur, par M. P.-F. Tissot. [- Seconde edition].
Paris, H. Gaugain, Chaillou [- impr. de J. Tastu], 1829
Hammer price: €
1.000
€ 1.200 / 1.500
Live bidding (Drouot*) Live bidding (Invaluable*)Bidding is closed
Lot description
3 vol. Text: 2 vol., 8vo: [4]-xlvii-359, [4]-364 pp.; 1 pl. (foxing, sl. marg. staining). Atlas, folio; portrait and 142 pl. (foxing, text of pl. 132 upside down).
Contemp. dark blue leather, marbled paper covers, gilt-orn. spines (rubbed, more to spine of Atlas, head and tail missing to Atlas and front joint part. split). Text vol. with lower edges not trimmed.
Second edition (1st 1802) of Denon's fundamental work on Egypt. The Atlas is composed of his portrait in frontispiece and 143 numb. engr. (incl. 20bis and 54bis) on chine appliqué pasted on 142 ff. (some fold. or on double page) representing monuments, city views, pyramids and temples, maps, hieroglyphs, etc. Fold. plate in vol. I of text with the transcription of a text in Greek (with its French translation). Issued in 250 numb. copies (n. 60).
Ref. Gay 1998. - Cp. Blackmer 546 (1st ed.).
Prov. [Georges Petit].