Lot n° 135
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Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des r - Lot 135
Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française
Paris, F. C. Panckoucke, 1808-1817
AUTHOR'S COPY, THAT OF JEAN-MARIE DUBOIS-AYMÉ, ONE OF THE FAMOUS SCHOLARS WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE GREATEST MONUMENT EVER ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF EGYPT AND THE CIVILIZATION OF THE PHARAOHS.
COMPLETE COPY AS REQUIRED BY MONGLOND, WITH 894 PLATES, PLUS 146 ADDITIONAL PLATES IN VARIOUS STATES.
WITH 60 COLOR PLATES.
SOME PLATES ARE PROOFS, SOMETIMES CORRECTED BY DUBOIS-AYMÉ HIMSELF IN PENCIL.
WITH TWO LETTERS FROM DUBOIS-AYMÉ, ONE TO ANDRÉ-MARIE AMPÈRE, AND TWO LETTERS TO DUBOIS-AYMÉ FROM EDME-FRANÇOIS JOMARD ORIGINAL EDITION
VOLUMES OF TEXT (detailed collation on request): 34 volumes including: 1 large in-folio (750 x 560 mm), 28 in-4 volumes (400 x 270 mm) and 5 in-8 volumes (220 x 155 mm): - Preface volume [vol. 1]:_x001e_Préface historique, par M. Fourier: faux-titre signed in pencil "D. A" by Dubois-Aymé - Antiquités: 8 volumes: [vol. 2]: Descriptions. Tome Ier; [vol. 3]: Descriptions. Tome Ier. 2e Livraison; [vol. 4]: Descriptions. Tome Ier. 3e Livraison; [vol. 5]: Mémoires et Descriptions. Tome I. 3e Livraison; [vol. 6]: Memoirs. Volume I; [vol. 7]: Memoirs. Volume I. 2nd Delivery; [vol. 8]:
Mémoires. Tome Ier. 3e Livraison (with 1 folded map, 2 plates including 1 folding, 10 tables including some folding); [vol. 9]: Memoirs and
Descriptions. Tome II. 3e Livraison, 2e Section (with 2 plates) - État Moderne: 7 volumes: [vol. 10]: Volume I; [vol. 11]: Tome Ier. 2e Livraison; [vol. 12]: Tome Ier. 3e Livraison; [vol. 13]: 3e Livraison. Continuation of Volume II; [vol. 14]: 3rd Delivery (2nd Section). Continuation of Volume II. 1st and 2nd Parts, with 1 plate; [vol. 15]: Volume II. Part 2. 3rd Delivery.
(2nd Section.); [vol. 16]: Volume II. 2nd Part. 3rd Delivery (3rd Section.). 2 large folding plates - Natural History: 6 volumes: [vol. 17]: Memoirs. Volume I; [vol. 18]: Mémoires. Tome Ier. 3rd Delivery (3rd Section); [vol. 19]: Memoirs.
3rd Delivery (2nd Section). Continuation of Tome I and II; [vol. 20]: Memoirs. Volume II. 2nd Delivery; [vol. 21]: Mémoires. Volume II. 3rd Delivery (with 1 fold-out plate); [vol. 22]: Mémoires. Tome Ier. 3e Livraison (3rd Section) - Offprinted volumes: 12 volumes including two dispatches to Dubois-Aymé and two from Dubois-Aymé: [vol. 23]: offprint of the text by E. Jomard, corresponding to text volume 7 of Antiquités: Mémoire sur le système métrique des anciens égyptiens... by E. Jomard. ENVOI autograph de E. Jomard, on the second flyleaf: L'auteur, à mon excellent ami DuBois Aymé; [vol. 24]: Mémoire sur les tribus arabes des deserts de l'Égypte, by M. Dubois-Aymé; [vol. 25]: offprint of texts by E. Jomard, probably in a proof edition, as the texts have wide margins and some text sections have remained loose; [vol. 26]: offprint of several texts by E. Jomard with autograph ENVOI_x001e_: A mon collègue et ami DuBois Aymé; [vol. 27]: Description de la Babylone d'Égypte, par M. Du Bois-Aymé_x001c_; Description d'Héliopolis, par M. Du Bois-Aymé; [vol. 28]: Notice sur la Babylone d'Égypte, by Dubois-Aymé; [vol. 29]: offprint of Dubois-Aymé's texts (with 1 folding map); [vol. 30]: Voyage dans l'intérieur du Delta, by MM. Du Bois-Aymé and Jollois, with an autograph ENVOI from Dubois-Aymé: A Monsieur Ubaldino
Peruzzi. From the author Boisaymé, as well as a pencil annotation at the bottom of the same page: Cet écrit et le chapitre XXV de la description des antiquités, dans le grand ouvrage d'Égypte, ont été publiés en Commun par mm. du Boisaymé et Jollois. Jollois wrote chapter XXV in particular, while du Boisaymé wrote about their trip to the Delta. Chapter XXV was consequently signed by
Jollois et du Boisaymé, et le voyage du Boisaymé et Jollois. Contains a handwritten date correction on the first page of text: *Read 9 fructidor year 8 (August 27, 1800) [vol. 31]: Mémoire sur la ville et la vallée de Qoçeir; [vol. 32]: Mémoire sur les anciennes limites de la Mer Rouge, by M. Du Bois-Aymé_x001e_(with the author's Preface dedicated to his mother), with autograph ENVOI from Dubois-Aymé on the first page in pencil_x001e_: to Monsieur Ampère, From the author; [vol. 33]: Mémoire sur les anciennes limites de la Mer Rouge, by M. Du Bois-Aymé (without the Preface); [vol. 34]: Mémoire sur les tribus arabes, by M. Du Bois-Aymé
VOLUMES OF PLANS (detailed collation on request): 18 VOLUMES of which: 9 large folio volumes (750 x 560 mm), 3 broadsheet volumes
(1120 x 710 mm), 1 folio volume (520 x 370 mm), and 5 portfolios (760 x 610 mm and 1140 x 740 mm): - volumes 1 to 5]: Antiquities: 314 plates, including 21 in couleu
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