Jun 20, 2002 - Sale 1940

Sale 1940 - Lot 80

Price Realized: $ 8,625
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 7,500
MAMMOTH 47-SHEET MAP OF EGYPT AND THE NILE(EGYPT.) Jacotin, Pierre; and Panckoucke, Charles. Carte Topographique de l'Egypte et de Plusieurs Parties des Pays Limitrophes. Engraved title, plate of characters, engraved "assemblage" map, 47 engraved maps (most double-page). Together, 50 engraved sheets [complete]. Folio, unbound; a few maps a trifle browned along the vertical fold, scattered minor foxing usually restricted to the margins, a few scattered short tears in margins. Paris, [1818]
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Complete copy of this monumental mapping of Egypt under Bonaparte. The maps were so detailed that copies of them were used by the British during World War II.<