Description de l'Egypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont et faites en Egypte pendant l'expedition de l'armee française, /
Description de l'Egypte, ou, Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont et faites en Egypte pendant l'expedition de l'armee française, /
pubilé par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'empereur Napoléon le Grand..
- 19 volumes in 21 : illustrations (engravings, some colour, some folded), maps, music, plans, portraits ; fol.
Much of the work drawn from material assembled by members of the Institut d'Egypte. Publication supervised by a Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte appointed by the Ministere de l'Interieur. Volumes published from 1817-1828, have the imprint: 'de l'Imprimerie Royale.' The text was issued in livraisons as 11 volumes (including the plate-sized Prâeface historique. Explication des planches); the plates in 10 volumes in several formats (71x54 cm., 107x69 cm., 127x70 cm.) totaling 894 plates, with 36 additional prepared to be bound into the text volume. The Carte topographique is in the "grand monde" or large format.
Index geographique, in Etat moderne, volume 2: part. 2, pages 787-846.
t.1-t.2: Antiquités: Descriptions, 1809-1818, 2 volumes; t.[3]-t.[4]: Mémoires, 1809-1818, 2 volumes; t.[5]-t.[9]: Antiquités Planches, 1809-1822, 5 volumes -- t.[10]-[12]: Etat moderne, 1809-1822, 2 volumes in 3; t.[13]-[14]: Planches, 1809-1817, 2 volumes -- t.[15]-[16]: Histoire naturelle, 1809-1812, 2 volumes; t.[17]-[19]: Planches, 1809-[approximately 1826], 2 volumes in 3. (Volume II. part 2 has no title-page) -- t.[20]: Carte topographique / construie par M. Jacotin [1828] -- t.[21]: Preface historique / par M. Fourier [et] Explication des planches (caption titles).
Natural history--Egypt.
Music--Egypt.
Egypt--Description and travel.
Egypt--Antiquities.
Egypt--Civilization.
Much of the work drawn from material assembled by members of the Institut d'Egypte. Publication supervised by a Commission des sciences et arts d'Egypte appointed by the Ministere de l'Interieur. Volumes published from 1817-1828, have the imprint: 'de l'Imprimerie Royale.' The text was issued in livraisons as 11 volumes (including the plate-sized Prâeface historique. Explication des planches); the plates in 10 volumes in several formats (71x54 cm., 107x69 cm., 127x70 cm.) totaling 894 plates, with 36 additional prepared to be bound into the text volume. The Carte topographique is in the "grand monde" or large format.
Index geographique, in Etat moderne, volume 2: part. 2, pages 787-846.
t.1-t.2: Antiquités: Descriptions, 1809-1818, 2 volumes; t.[3]-t.[4]: Mémoires, 1809-1818, 2 volumes; t.[5]-t.[9]: Antiquités Planches, 1809-1822, 5 volumes -- t.[10]-[12]: Etat moderne, 1809-1822, 2 volumes in 3; t.[13]-[14]: Planches, 1809-1817, 2 volumes -- t.[15]-[16]: Histoire naturelle, 1809-1812, 2 volumes; t.[17]-[19]: Planches, 1809-[approximately 1826], 2 volumes in 3. (Volume II. part 2 has no title-page) -- t.[20]: Carte topographique / construie par M. Jacotin [1828] -- t.[21]: Preface historique / par M. Fourier [et] Explication des planches (caption titles).
Natural history--Egypt.
Music--Egypt.
Egypt--Description and travel.
Egypt--Antiquities.
Egypt--Civilization.