Planches du Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte; Atlas Volume

Edité par L. Peltier [1802], London, 1802

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Atlas folio, 48 cm (18.75 inches), in 3/4 leather with marbled boards. Large folding map and 60 numbered engraved plates after Denon (many with multiple images), some double-page or folding. Each plate signed by the sculptor. Undated, but the 1802 Londres edition from Peltier, OCLC 611984346. Condition is good antiquarian. Corners rubbed, joints rubbed and front board coming loose, first blank loose. Gilt edges still bright, one black silk page marker present. Some light foxing and age to the plates but otherwise clean and unmarked, one triple fold plate has a short tear at the gutter. Spine has library marks and old library pocket at the rear, armorial bookplate of Col. Sir Joseph Whatley, born 1765, Colonel of the Royal South Gloucester Regiment of Militia and a Knight Commander of the Guelph (1831), a civil order in the gift of the Sovereign as personal mark of recognition of his service of 20 years as a Groom of the Bedchamber successively to George IV and William IV. He was the son of Edward Whatley, Mayor of Bristol in 1768. Denon was invited to join Napoleon's expedition to Egypt in 1798. He ".was the first artist to discover and draw the temples and ruins at Thebes, Esna, Edfu, and Philae. Until that time, most of the known Egyptian antiquities were pyramids and scattered pieces of sculptures and stelae. . The troops moved south rapidly. They reached Esna, then Edfu, where he saw “the sublime temple of Apollinopolis,” which he later called “the most beautiful of all Egypt.” Denon began to realize that, in architecture, the Egyptians had anticipated the Greeks, and in his opinion, surpassed them. . he finally arrived back in Cairo in July of 1799. He met with the remaining members of the Institute, and showed them his drawings, and they too were captivated. More importantly, so was Napoleon, and he quickly authorized two more expeditions to Upper Egypt, with the express purpose of studying the antiquities. The commissions would head south in August. But not before Napoleon had fled the country back to France, deserting his troops and his savants, and taking with him Monge, and Berthollet, and Denon. Denon, never one to waste time, immediately began to prepare his journal and his drawings for publication. They appeared in a sumptuous folio edition in 1802, and for the first time, readers became aware of the magnificence of Luxor, Karnac, Philae, Edfu, and Dendera." (Linda Hall Library). A magnificent book.; Folio 13" - 23" tall.…

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Titre
Planches du Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte; Atlas Volume
Auteur
Denon, Dominique-Vivant
Éditeur
L. Peltier [1802], London
Année de publication
1802
État de l'article
Good
Jaquette
No Dust Jacket
Reliure
Hardcover
Édition
Second Edition.
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Egyptology, History: Ancient, Illustrated Books

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