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Champollion, Jean-François (1790-1832) Grammaire Égyptienne, ou Principes Généraux de l'Écriture Sacrée Égyptienne.
Paris: Typographie de Firmin Didot Freres, 1836- [1841].
First edition, folio; illustrated throughout with hieroglyphics, some printed in colors; bound in half buckram (corners bumped); ex libris French architect Paul Lagrave (1853-1933) with bookplate; (ink spot and removed rubber stamp to title); one illegible owner's inscription to title dated 1837, and another in an ancient Egyptian script; 13 x 8 1/4 in.
Champollion first transliterated the texts on the Rosetta Stone in the 1820s. With these in hand, he set out to decipher the ancient Egyptian written language. He was able to demonstrate that this system of writing was composed of phonetic and ideographic symbols. Inspired, he visited Egypt in 1829, gathering more raw material for his task. The posthumously published Grammaire Égyptienne is today universally accepted as accurate and the basis for all knowledge we have gleaned from the rich texts left behind by this great civilization.
