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Verlag: LondonThe Erotic Print Society ., 1996
Anbieter: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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DE LUXE LIMITED EDITION (2,500). This copy unnumbered. Two faithful reproductions of the artist's original etchings printed on 300 gsm Canaletto paper, both prints measuring 330 x 220 mm. With leaf of descriptive text loose as issued in original publisher's blue portfolio with green title-label to upper cover. THE ARTIST: (Born 4th January 1747, Chalon-sur-Saône; died 27th April 1825, Paris) First a law student in Paris, Denon turned to writing for the theatre, and at the tender age of 23 produced his first successful play. Denon's potential as a diplomat was recognised after a commis- sion to arrange a cabinet of carved gems for Louis XV, and he carried out missions to Russia, Switzerland and Naples between 1772 and 1787; that last year in Naples, while still in the King's employ, he was elected to the Académie de Peinture and he etched La Belle Napolitaine on copper. During the Revolution Denon returned to Paris, where he was given protection by his friend, the important Neo-Classical painter, Jacques-Louis David. He accompanied Napoleon on the famous Egyptian expedition of 1798 and there he made hundreds of sketches of the ancient monuments, sometimes even under enemy fire. The results were published in his Voyage dans la basse et la haute Égypte (Travels in Lower and Upper Egypt) of 1802. Napoleon made the artist Director General of Museums in 1804, a post he retained until 1815. Denon travelled with the Emperor in this position on expeditions to Austria, Spain, and Poland and advised on which works of art to pillage from the various conquered countries. Ultimately, many of these works found a new home in the Louvre: given this rather advantageous acquisition policy, Denon was perfectly situated to plan the development of the museum's collection. THE WORK: These two prints are from Denon's Oeuvre Priapique (Priapic Works), a collection published pri- vately in 1792. As an artist-collector, the Vivant-Denon drew enthusiastically on the large re- serves of classical antiquities in Naples, but the origins of this beautiful woman are more obscure. From the title one might guess that she was a famous courtesan or model, but there is an element of intimate, almost proprietorial, observation in the work that leads the viewer to believe that the subject may have been the artist's mistress of the time. THE TIME: As well as removing the monarchy and a large part of the aristocracy, the first apostles of the Revolution swept away many of the beliefs and customs of the ancien régime. Advocates of the new protocol tried to place as much distance, culturally speaking, between themselves and the previous ruling elite as they could. But the Neo-Classical style pre-dated the Revolution by more than a decade and many of the Revolution's influential architects of form brought with them luggage from the previous era. A former aristocrat and power-broker par excellence of the time, Talleyrand, noted that these memories were 'of a sweetness which those born after the Revolution would never know.' There is no reason to doubt the revolutionary fervour of Bonaparte's trusty curator and antiquarian. Nevertheless, the style and delicacy of Vivant-Denon's art as well as the hedonistic character of his life betray an artist and man whose roots were firmly in Bourbon France while his canopy was in the arriviste world of the nouvelle bourgeoisie.
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Verlag: London Longman and Rees, 1803
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Titel, 366 S., 1 Bl., 26 gestochene Falttaf. Ldrbd d. Zeit (beschabt u. leicht bestoßen, Außengelenke eingerissen, Vorsätze leimschattig, m. Sign. u. Besitzvermerk, Titel mehrf. unschön gestempelt, 2 Bl. m. Stempel, Papier durchgehend etwas braunfleckig u. wellig, Tafeln meist nässespurig, teils m. Randeinrissen u. Quetschfalten). Erste englische Oktav-Ausgabe.- Vorhanden sind die Tafeln 15 - 21, 24, 28, 30 - 34, 36, 40, 45, 52 - 53, 58, 60, 62 - 63 sowie drei unbezeichnete Tafeln (Ibrahim-Hilmy nennt für das Gesamtwerk 60 Tafeln).- Denons Reisewerk ist "ausgezeichnet durch lebendige, ja brillante Darstellung", doch "sein größtes Verdienst war es, daß er für Europa mit seinen Zeichnungen eine Bildquelle eröffnete, wie sie bis dahin von keinem Reisenden (.) aus Ägypten heimgebracht worden war.- Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 172f.; Henze II, 50f. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: Berlin und Hamburg, o. V., 1803
Anbieter: Antiquariat Lenzen, Düsseldorf, Deutschland
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Verlag: [ohne Drucker], Berlin/Hamburg, 1803
Anbieter: Antiquariat Hieronymus, München, Deutschland
Zustand: Gut. Gut. 8° (18,5-22,5 cm). XII, 460 S., 1 Bl. Pappeinband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem, montiertem Rücken und Deckelschild . Bibliothek der neuesten und interessantesten Reisebeschreibungen Bd. 16; Archiv der neuesten und interessantesten Reisebeschreibungen Bd. 4. Einband etwas berieben und bestoßen, Seiten gering gebräunt, ansonsten gut erhalten. Besitzerstempel, Nummer und ExLibris auf Vorsatz (Grafen von Helldorff). Kainbacher(3) 88. Seltenes und gesuchtes Werk über die Geschichte, Kultur und Bauwerke (Hermopolis, Dendera, Philae, Armant, Luxor, Edfu, Theben) Ägyptens zur Zeit der Feldzüge Napoleons erschien 1803 in drei deutschen Ausgaben, deren Reihenfolge jedoch umstritten ist; davon ist diese Ausgabe jedoch die vollständigste. Henze II, 50: "Die erste wichtige Frucht der Ägyptischen Expedition, ausgezeichnet durch lebendige, ja brillante Darstellung". Mit 8 gestochenen Kupfertafeln, 1 gefalteteten Schrifttafel und 1 mehrfach gefalteten Landkarte. Geschichte, History, Geographie, Reisebeschreibung, Travel Description, Antike, Afrika, Ägypten, Aegypten, Egypt, Napoleon Bonaparte, Antike Bauwerke, Tempel, Temple, Pyramiden, Pyramids. 800 Gramm. Pappeinband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem, montiertem Rücken und Deckelschild.
Verlag: Paris, Audot, Libraire-éditeur, 1835,, 1835
Anbieter: Harteveld Rare Books Ltd., Fribourg, Schweiz
gr. in-8vo, 2 ff. (titre - liste des planches, Errata) + p. 271 à 370 (= 100 p. de texte à deux colonnes) + 29 planches gravées sur acier h.-t. avec 40 vues, reliure en d.-veau blonde, dos à cinq nerfs avec 2 pièces en maroquin rouge pour titre et tomaison. Coiffe sup. tirée. Première édition, 1 volume sur 3. D?après les inspirations, les recherches et travaux de M.M. le vicomte Chateaubriand, Raoul-Rochette Lamartine, le comte de Forbin, Piranesi, Mazzara et de Napoleon, Denon, Saint-Non, Lord Byron, Goethe, Visconti, Cicognara, Lanzi, de Bonstetten, Swinburne, etcPlease notify before visiting to see a book. Prices are excl. VAT/TVA (only Switzerland) & postage. Bellani 524.
Verlag: Vivant Denon, 1747-1825, 1825
Anbieter: Hammelburger Antiquariat, Hammelburg, Deutschland
Hardcover. Zustand: very good. Travels in upper and lower Egypt, by Vivant Denon, 1803 Ägypten. - Denon, V. Travels in upper and lower Egypt, during the campaigns of General Bonaparte. Transl. by A. Aikin. 3 Bde. London, Longman u.a. 1803. (22:13,5 cm). Mit 2 gefalt. Kupferkarten u. 58 gefalt. Kupfertafeln. Ldr. d. Zt., Rücken erneuert. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 174; Blackmer 471 Anm. - Zweite englische Ausgabe. Die Tafeln mit Ansichten von Malta, Korsika, Alexandria, Kairo, Luxor, Theben u.v.a., Darst. von Tempeln, Pyramiden, Trachten, Waffen etc. - Etwas gebräunt u. stockfleckig; 1 Tafel mit Einriss, 1 weitere oben angeschnitten; Bd. 3 bis S. 60 oben sowie mehrere Tafeln mit Feuchtigkeitsspuren. Second English edition, 3 volumes. - Some browning and foxing; tear to 1 plate; some brownspotting to some plates and til page 60 of vol. 3. Contemporary calf, spine renewed.
Verlag: Charles Taylor, London, 1819
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USA
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FIRST EDITION. 515 x 350 mm. (20 1/4 x 13 3/4"). vi, 146, [2] pp. HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, covers elaborately framed in gilt and blind, raised bands, spine panels with intricate gilt medallion centerpiece, gilt lettering, heraldic crest of Lyme stamped in gilt at foot of spine, turn-ins framed in gilt and blind, (original?) leather hinges, all edges gilt (very expert joint and corner restoration). With 110 ENGRAVED PLATES of Egyptian places, people, and antiquities, one double-page, seven folding, as called for. A Large Paper Copy. Text in French and English in parallel columns. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Lyme (engraved by J. F Badeley and dated 1904) and small library shelf label. âFrontispiece portrait and half a dozen other plates somewhat foxed, four folding plates with expert repairs, faint offsetting from engravings, isolated marginal foxing, otherwise fine--quite clean, fresh, and bright internally, with crisp impressions of the engravings and generous margins. This is the rare oversize first edition of these text excerpts and plates, adapted from Baron Denon's much more costly 1802 edition, "Voyage dans la basse et la haute Égypte, pendant les Campagnes du Général Bonaparte," published in English in 1804 as "Travels in Lower and Upper Egypt during the Campaigns of General Bonaparte." The present work combines the 110 famed engravings from the English printing with descriptions of their subjects, supplied in both French and English. According to Terence M. Russell's "Discovery of Egypt," the French artist, writer, diplomat, and archaeologist Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825) was the chief artistic adviser to then-First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, and "was known as 'Napoleon's eye.'" He had met the future emperor at the salon of future empress Josephine de Beauharnais, and was invited by Napoleon to join the Egypt expeditionary force under General Desaix as an arts and culture observer. He made sketches of the remarkable monuments--sometimes while under enemy fire--as well as of the ports, the cities, the inhabitants, and the art, particularly ancient hieroglyphics. When he published the illustrated account of his journey, Russell tells us, "His insightful and deeply humane volume became an instant bestseller. Hitherto no one had suspected that Egypt's rich and mature civilisation existed. . . . Denon was the first to present to Europe a true and honest image of ancient Egypt and the first European traveller to spend months exploring the desert and recording the monuments he found there." He was "the primary force behind revealing Egypt's civilisation to an astonished Europe." His book helped bring about the Egyptian Revival movement in the decorative arts. Our volume presents his influential plates, considered the highlight of his work, to a wider, international audience. The present copy once resided in the stately library at Lyme Park, the family seat of Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton, where other holdings included the Caxton Missal (1487), the earliest surviving printing of a missal using the Sarum Rite.
Anbieter: Antiquariat Kainbacher, Baden bei Wien, Österreich
London 1757. Gr.-fol. (49:30,5 cm). Mit gest. Front., gest. Porträt, 159 auf 157 (5 gefalt.) Kupfertafeln sowie einigen gest. Vignetten u. Initialen (so komplett). 6 Bll., XXXIV, 124 S.; 2 Bll., VIII, 155 S. Neuere Lederbände mit reicher Rückenvergoldung u. blindgepr. Deckelbordüre, Rücken im Stil d. Zt. Erneuert, minimal berieben, Deckel mit geringen Kratzspuren. - Etwas gebräunt, stellenw. etwas stockfleckig, vereinzelt mit Feuchtfleck, Bundstege durchgängig verstärkt, ca. 20 Taf. im Bundsteg mit hinterlegten Einrissen bis ins Bild, Bundsteg des Porträts bis zur Einfassungslinie ausgerissen und ergänzt, Titel mit repariertem Einriss, in Bd. I ca. 70 S. mit hinterlegten kl. Randläsuren, stellenw. mit leichten Quetschfalten, Vorsätze erneuert. - Provenienz: Aus der Bibliothek des Herzog von Nibbiano, Don Joseph Nicolas de Azara (1730-1804) mit dessen Eignerstempel auf den Schmutztiteln. Blackmer 1211; Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 74; Weber 520; Henze III, 622. - Erste englische Ausgabe. Der dänische Marinekapitän Norden reiste 1737 im Auftrage Christians VI. nach Nordafrika. "He spent about a year in Egypt and was the first European to penetrate as far as Derr in Nubia and to publish descriptions of any Nubian temples. This important work was the earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt, and its plates are the most significant previous to those by Denon" (Blackmer). Die schönen Tafeln mit zahlreichen Karten des Nillaufes, ferner Ansichten von Städten, Landschaften sowie archäologischen Stätten u. Monumenten.
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London, Taylor and Co., 1804. - Atlas: (Paris, Didot, 1802). 4to (30x24 cm.) and folio (54x42 cm.). Two contemporary half calf. Gilt spines and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. XVI,198,(2)"(2),131,(8) pp. Wide-margined. A few scattered brownspots. Atlas-volume, bound in contemporary half calf with wear to spine and spine-end as well as corners, is complete and contains 143 engraved plates (numb. 1-141 + 20bis a. 54bis), some large and folded. The plates with views, antiquities, architecture, maps etc. etc. A few scattered brownspots, some plates with faint marginal dampstaining. Scarce first complete work in English of Denon's magnificent travel to Egypt, accompanied by the original French atlas of 1802 - not to be confused with the English translation of 1802, which reduced the plates to 60 instead of 140. "The object, therefore, of the present translation is to amend this defect (i.e. the reduction of the plates), and supply the reader with these celebrated Travels as they were published by M. Denon himself, consisting of one hundred and forty Copper-plate Prints (the fac-similes of his own original designs), with the different notes and illustrations, - and corrected from the last French edition, in which many improvements have been made." (The translator's advertisement). "Dominique-Vivant Denon was a lover of the Empress Josephine, a compulsive collector, the first director of the Louvre museum and Bonaparte's adviser on artistic matters. Indeed, Denon was known as 'Napoleon's eye'. But the man who impressed the emperor with his courteous manners and his talent for pornographic drawing was also the primary force behind revealing Egypt's civilisation to an astonished Europe. Invited to accompany Bonaparte during the French Expedition to Egypt - a staging post in Napoleon's campaign to wrest India from the British - Denon was forcibly struck by Egypt's architecture. With often only a few minutes to record the scene before him, he would sketch under fire. On one occasion he worked for sixteen hours, while the windblown sand caused his eyelids to bleed. Upon his return to France, Denon published "Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt". His insightful and deeply humane volume became an instant bestseller. Hitherto no one had suspected that Egypt's rich and mature civilisation existed. Denon was the first to present to Europe a true and honest image of ancient Egypt and the first European traveller to spend months exploring the desert and recording the monuments he found there." (Terence M. Russel, Discovery of Egypt). Denon had been invited by Napoleon to join the expedition to Egypt as part of the arts and literature section of the Institut d'Égypte and thus found the opportunity of gathering the materials for this, his most important literary and artistic work. He accompanied General Desaix to Upper Egypt, and made numerous sketches of the monuments of ancient art, sometimes under the very fire of the enemy. Denon was thus the first artist to discover and draw the temples and ruins at Thebes, Esna, Edfu, and Philae. Up until that time, most of the known Egyptian antiquities were pyramids and scattered pieces of sculptures and stelae. The results of Denon's efforts were published in this truly splendid work "Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt", originally appearing in French in 1802. The work crowned his reputation both as an archaeologist and as an artist, and sparked the Egyptian Revival in architecture and decorative arts.
Verlag: Florence, Paolo Fumagalli, 1836-1837 (text) & 1837-1841 (plates)., 1841
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
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2 text vols. (8vo) and 2 plate vols. (large folio). (2), 491, (1), (4) pp. 788, (6) pp. text. With engraved portrait of Segato as frontispiece in the first text volume and the plate volumes with 160 engraved and aquatint plates (7 double-page), including 51 tinted and/or coloured by a contemporary hand; many plates contain multiple illustrations, making 309 illustrations in total. Contemporary green (text vols.) and brown (plates vols.) half morocco, sewn on 3 recessed cords (text vols.) and 4 tapes (plates vols.), "agate" chemical marbled sides. First edition of a beautiful series of illustrations of Egypt and classical Egyptian monuments, with the accompanying text volumes giving detailed information on each illustration. The illustrations show maps, costumes and views of both ancient and modern Egypt. The scientist and Egyptologist Girolamo Segato (1792-1836) began working on a new description and depiction of Egypt, selecting illustrations from the works of Denon, Grau and Rosellini, and also including his own original drawings. After his premature death his collaborator Domenico Valeriani finished the work and provided the accompanying texts. - Segato is best known for his technique similar to mummification, this technique of petrification remains mysterious, despite numerous studies and attempts to imitate, as he destroyed all his documentation before his death. - The text and plates volumes with marginal foxing throughout, minor except in the preliminary leaves. Otherwise in good condition. The binding slightly rubbed along the extremities, damage to the upper right corner of the first plates volume, resulting in a stain on the front endpapers, and the upper half of the sides on the second plate volume faded, otherwise good and structurally sound. - Blackmer 1521 (plate volumes only, erroneously noting 159 plates). Blackmer sales cat. 984 (160 plates). Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 301. ICCU 0154707. For Segato: Almagia, "Segato, Girolamo" in: Treccani Enciclopedia Italiana (online ed.).
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Paris, (Clousier imprimeur), 1781-86. Folio. (51 x 33,5 cm.). Bound to style in 5 uniform full light brown sprinckled full calf (bound in the 1970 ties). Blindtooled lineborders and blindtooled dentelles with blindtooled cornerpieces on covers. 7 raised bands. bands with gilding. Compartments gilt with flowers. Inner hinges in leather. Marbled endpapers. No wear to bindings. 5 halftitles, 5 title-pages with engraved vignette. I: (4),XIII,(3),252 pp. Without an engraved dedication-leaf (called for by Brunet "épitre dédicatoire gravée). II: (4),XXVIII,283 pp. III: (4),XL,201,22 pp. IV: (4),II,(6),XVIII,266 pp. V: (4),(2),267-429,(1) pp., 434 engravings on 317 sheets, including the 14 plates with medals and coins (doubles médailles) + 13 mostly double-page engraved maps, plans and charts. More than 100 larger and smaller vignettes, head-and tailpieces, ornaments etc., 25 in 2 colours. Wide-margined with very few brownspots (a small brownspot on the phallus-plate in volume II), a few leaves with small closed tears in margin, 1 leaf having a printed line repaired (a weakness in the paper) but no loss of letters. Foot of last leaves in volume II with very light foxing. Plates and text fine a clean, gently washed. First edition of this renowned travelbook, one of the most successful travel books ever published - "the completed work is one of the most beautiful that a private person has ever produced, and it is unparalleled among the sumptuous voyage pittoresque publications". (Millard French,148).In 1759, Claude Richard Saint-Non (1727-1791) was relieved of his duties as a deacon and lawyer, and undertook a cavalier tour through Italy in the years 1759-1761 with the painters Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Hubert Robert. His publication project of a Voyage pittoresque initially envisaged five volumes on the whole of Italy and a volume on Switzerland, but then limited itself to only southern Italy. For the etchings Saint-Non on the one hand on some older pictures by Robert and Fragonard among others. On the other hand, the 61 employed engravers worked mainly on documents which had been supplied by a group of artists traveling on his behalf under the direction of Dominique Vivant Denon, secretary of the French Ambassador in Italy, in 1777/78. Volume I deals with the history, buildings, artists and customs of Naples and Vesuvius with its outbursts. Volume II is dedicated to Herculaneum and Pompeii" Volume III deals with Southern Italy (including Paestum and Capri). Sicily is treated in volumes IV and V. Brunet V,55-56. - Cohen-de Ricci, 928-29. - Ray, French Illustr. Books, 34.
Verlag: Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale, 1819., 1819
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
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Text vol. in 8vo and atlas in folio (670 x 503 mm). (4), 460 pp. (4), 65 pp. Half-titles in both vols.; 80 lithographed, sepia aquatint or engraved plates and plans, the 8 fine aquatints by Debucourt after Forbin, the lithographed subjects for G. Engelmann after Lecomte, Deseynes, Castellan, Carle, and Horace Vernet, Fragonard, Thiénon, Legros, Isabey and others, large folding engraved plan at the end of text vol. 19th century marbled half calf with giltstamped title to gilt spine. First edition. Only 325 copies of this work were produced. "Forbin's was one of the first important French books to use lithography on a grand scale, and the standard of production is equal to that of Napoléon's 'Description de l'Egypte' or Denon's 'Voyage'" (Navari, Blackmer). Forbin succeeded Denon as director of museums in 1816 and was authorised to purchase antiquities for the Louvre (his son-in-law, Marcellus, expedited the acquisition of the recently discovered Venus de Milo). In August 1817 he began a year-long journey to the Levant accompanied by the artist Pierre Prévost and the engineer de Bellefonds. His journey took him to Melos, Athens, Constantinople, Smyrna, Ephesus, Acre, Jaffa, Jerusalem, Cairo, Luxor, and Thebes. - This set includes the frequently lacking 8vo text volume: this has the plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre bound at the end with a list of plates which were sold separately. The atlas volume repeats the text (entirely reset in-folio, sometimes found in a separate folio volume) and includes the magnificent, highly desirable plates (after Carle Vernet, Fragonard, Isabey, and Forbin himself, as well as Prevost), which show fine views of Greece, the Dead Sea, Jerusalem, Ramla, Gaza, and Egypt. - Occasional slight foxing, still a splendid copy from the library of the ducs de Luynes at the Château de Dampierre: their bookplate reproducing the arms of Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes (1783-1839), 7th Duc de Luynes, on pastedown. The Aboussouan copy (comprising both the folio and the octavo volume) commanded £20,000 at Sotheby's in 1993, while in 2002 the Atabey copy of the folio volume alone fetched £22,000. - Atabey 447f. Blackmer 614. Aboussouan 338. Weber I, 68-70. Röhricht 1660. Tobler 144f. Colas 1089. Hiler 321. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 163. Brunet II, 1337. Graesse II, 614. Cf. Lipperheide Ma 16 (2nd ed.).
Verlag: Paris, Dénain, 1830-1836., 1836
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
10 text volumes bound in 11 (8vo) and 2 atlas vols. (oblong folio), altogether 13 vols. With a total of 300 engr. plates (13 folding, 2 in original hand colour, some with touches of colour) and 160 engr. portraits as well as 6 (1 folding) facsimiles, almost all on China paper. Green grained half morocco, spines gilt. First edition, almost never encountered complete as thus. Important source for the history and activities of the 1798 French expedition to Egypt, published in ten text volumes by Louis Reybaud and two atlas volumes. The portraits of the members of the expedition (usually forming part of the text volumes) have here been bound separately; also contains two additional portraits (not counted). "The 160 profile portraits by Dutertre [.] are of particular interest" (Blackmer). Many of the plates showing views, antiquities, maps etc. were engraved after drawings by Vivant Denon, whose work opened up the Middle East for western eyes as no other had done before (cf. Henze II, 50). - Plates numbered 1-309 (each of the 13 folding plates counting as a double), followed by "dernière planche" and 3 maps. Five of the facsimiles have been bound at the end of the second atlas volume, another in vol. 3. The text volumes contain the "Histoire ancienne" (vols. 1-2) and the "Histoire moderne de l'Égypte" (vols. 9-10) as well as the expedition report proper (vols. 3-8). All text volumes have four title pages (slightly departing from those in Blackmer's copy). Vol. 1 also contains a "Rapport" of the work for the Académie by G. Saint-Hilaire, dated Nov. 1836, which names Louis Reybaud as "principal rédacteur". - A magnificent set in period bindings, interior clean and spotless throughout. No complete copy recorded at auction within the last decades. - Blackmer 1476. Gay 2209. Cf. Hage Chahine 4277 and Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 80 (both citing individual text volumes only).
Verlag: Egypt, 1826., 1826
Anbieter: Antiquariat INLIBRIS Gilhofer Nfg. GmbH, Vienna, A, Österreich
Manuskript / Papierantiquität
4to (235 x 185 mm). 177 pp. Contemporary wrappers (wanting spine). Handwritten title and name on front cover. An early 19th century Egyptologist's fascinating travel notes documenting his journey through the Nile valley, profusely illustrated with more than 230 sketches showing hieroglyphs and Greek and Coptic inscriptions. - At the age of 27, Louis de Vaucelles undertook an expedition to Egypt to explore the banks of the Nile from Cairo to Aswan. He set out from Marseille on 27 January 1826 and reached the second cataract on 27 May. In his journal he accurately reproduces all cartouches and inscriptions of the temples, tombs and palaces visited up to the first cataract south of Aswan. He gives the condition of monuments (sometimes mere ruins), identifies traces of Christian chapels and churches, translates hieroglyphs dedicated both to pharaohs and Roman emperors, indicates (in cursive script) several Arabic words and names, and mentions the orientalists who preceded him: his mentor Champollion as well as Denon, Maillé, Belzoni, and Niebuhr. Among the temples and sites he describes are Ipsamboul, Edfu, Dakka ("un des mieux conservés"), Thèbes ("Louqsor"), Karnak, Denderah Assouan, Elephantine and Philae as well as the pyramids of Giza, Cleopatra's Needle, the Sphinx (the head of which is said to be "extrêmement mutilée"), Alexandria, and the Nile Delta. - The final fifty-odd pages are devoted to contemporary Egyptian cities, their people, and their Arab, Jewish and Coptic traditions. As Vaucelle notes, Coptic Christians are free to practice their religion due to the unrivalled tolerance of the Muslim faith ("tant il est vrai qu'il n'y a pas de religion plus tolérante que la religion mahométane"). He also provides details of medical operations such as castration, circumcision, and excision, as well as of the "Kalisch" festivities held in Cairo at the time of the opening of the dikes. - Louis de Vaucelles de Ravigny was trained by Jean-François Champollion, who in 1824 published his "Précis du système hiéroglyphique des anciens Égyptiens". Apart from the present travel journal he also produced a "Chronologie des monuments antiques de la Nubie" (1829), based on the interpretation of the royal legends contained in the hieroglyphic reliefs, a book in which he pays tribute to the German egyptologist François-Christian Gau. - Slight fraying to edges; wants wrappers' spine. A fine survival.