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CHAMPOLLION, JEAN-FRANÇOIS. L'Égypte sous les Pharaons. Folding engraved map. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt with red
CHAMPOLLION, JEAN-FRANÇOIS. L'Égypte sous les Pharaons. Folding engraved map. Half-titles. 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf gilt with red and citron morocco lettering pieces by J. Mackenzie, spines rubbed, Volume 2 numbering piece chipped. (Grenoble: la Veuve Peyronard for) Paris: De Bure frères, 1814
- Notes: first complete edition of a collection of writings on the geography, history, and civilization of Egypt prior to the invasion of the Persians under Cambyses in 525 B.C. The first volume was published in a small edition in 1811. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 128. From the library of Frances Mary Richardson Currer, "England's earliest female bibliophile" (De Ricci, English Collectors, page 141).
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