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Denon, Baron Dominique Vivant.
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
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Description
- Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte. Paris: P. Didot l'ainé, 1802
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First edition, 2 volumes (text and atlas), large folio (677 x 504mm.), half-titles, atlas with 178 engraved plates and maps on 142 sheets after Denon and Michel Rigo, 8 double-page, no title to atlas, early nineteenth-century green half morocco over calico cloth sides by J. Mackenzie, the sides colour-printed with a floral design, spines gilt in compartments, endpapers with similarly decorated calico, top edges gilt, others uncut, [BAL RIBA 841; cf. Blackmer 471 (second edition)], occasional light browning and slight spotting, spines slightly faded
Catalogue Note
A fine copy with wide margins from the library of Beriah Botfield at Longleat.
Denon was a member of the Commission des Sciences et Arts which accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt and remained there for thirteen months, working continuously to record the Egyptian monuments. He was the first to reveal the richness of Egyptian art to Europe. This large-format production set a precedent for subsequent Egyptian works which were also printed on the grandest scale - the Description de l'Egypte, Rosellini's I Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia and Champollion's Monuments de l'Egypte.
Denon was a member of the Commission des Sciences et Arts which accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt and remained there for thirteen months, working continuously to record the Egyptian monuments. He was the first to reveal the richness of Egyptian art to Europe. This large-format production set a precedent for subsequent Egyptian works which were also printed on the grandest scale - the Description de l'Egypte, Rosellini's I Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia and Champollion's Monuments de l'Egypte.