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1811 · 90550 — Paris: Imprimerie Impériale 1804-1814 1811. Fine. Imprimerie Impériale 1804-1814 Paris 1811 & 1816 26 x 40 cm 2 volumes brochés en 1 Fourth separate issue of this memoir. The text first appeared in the Description de l’Égypte before being reissued in several offprints cf. Meulenaere p. 80.Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers under temporary green paper covers spine restored minor marginal losses and a few tears to the covers internally in pleasing condition.At the head of the front free endpaper autograph inscription by Du Bois-Aymé “à son honorable collège et ami Monsieur Etienne”.Du Bois-Aymé 1779-1846 who embarked on the Tonnant travelled to Egypt as a student of the École Polytechnique. He sat his examinations there at the same time as his friend Villiers du Terrage and became an engineer of the Ponts et Chaussées.Sent to Suez he appears to have left on 16 June 1799 with the Maltese corps. There he worked on the levelling of the Isthmus. Attached to the first reconnaissance commission of Upper Egypt which left Cairo on 19 March 1799 he quarrelled with its head Girard who was likewise little appreciated by Jollois and Villiers.This resulted in his being dispatched with General Donzelot to Kosseir. He remained there for approximately three months and later took part in the second levelling campaign of the Isthmus of Suez under the direction of Le Père. He then travelled to Samangoud journeyed through the Delta and worked on the memoirs he was to present to the Institut. Hoping to return to France he shared with Jollois and Villiers their misadventures aboard the Oiseau.Following a dispute with the commander of this brig he was placed under arrest by Menou. He left Egypt towards the end of September 1801.Our copy contains bound after and by the same author: Notice sur le séjour des Hébreux en Egypte et sur leur fuite dans le désert. Published in Paris by the Imprimerie royale in March 1816 34 pp. Meulenaere p. 81.Second separate edition the text had likewise already appeared in the Description de l'Egypte. Imprimerie Impériale (1804-1814) unknown