Sciences naturelles

1822 · B6522 — Paris: Imprimerie de C.L.F. Panckoucke. 1822. . A very good copy with marginal minor light spotting. Publisher's blind stamps to corners of plates. Edition: Second Edition. Binding: contemporary half red calf over orange calf title in gilt on upper board and spine spine with 6 raised bands spine compartments with gilt ruling and blind decorative central devices. Notes: The second edition contained in total 11 plate volumes in large folio and 24 volumes of text in octavo.<br>The Description de L'Egypte was a series of publications appearing first in 1809 and continuing until the final volume appeared in 1829 which aimed to comprehensively catalog all known aspects of ancient and modern Egypt as well as its natural history. It is the collaborative work of about 160 civilian scholars and scientists known popularly as the savants who accompanied Bonaparte's expedition to Egypt in 1798 to 1801 as part of the French Revolutionary Wars as well as about 2000 artists and technicians including 400 engravers who would later compile it into a full work.<br> Size: Large Folio 670 x 515 mm Illustration: Illustrated with some superb folding large plates of panoramas and maps.<br>Volume 3 illustrated with 43 single full-page plates 20 double page plates 6 large folding plates of maps plans views and more.<br>Volume 4 illustrated with 58 single full-page plates 2 double page plates 4 large folding plates of maps plans views and more lacking 8 plates never bound.<br>Volume four missing plates 3 6 7 10 13 14 29 42 not bound originally.<br> Volume: Volume 3-4 out of 11 pl Category: Book Plate Books General; Book Africa Egypt; Imprimerie de C.L.F. Panckoucke. hardcover