Apr 07, 2008 - Sale 2141

Sale 2141 - Lot 123

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(NAPOLEONIC WARS.) Memoirs relative to Egypt, written . . . during the Campaigns of General Bonaparte, in the Years 1798 and 1799, by the Learned and Scientific Men who accompanied the French Expedition. 2 folding engraved maps (foxed and offset). viii, 459, [1] pages. 8vo, late 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 tan calf, back gilt with Napoleonic insignia and morocco lettering piece; title browned. London: R. Phillips et al., 1800

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first edition of a collection of translations of papers on miscellaneous topics in geography, medicine, natural history, agriculture, etc., by scholars associated with the Institut d'Égypte in Cairo, whose work culminated in the monumental Description de l'Égypte.