[Egypt]. Description de l'Egypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont étét faite en Egypte pendant expédition de l'armée française. Antiquités, tome troisième [-quatrième], i.e. 2 volumes only, 2nd edition, Paris: C. K. F. Panckoucke, 1822, printed title-page to each volume, 133 engraved plates (of 141: lacking plates, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 29 and 42 in volume 4), many plates double-page, a few also folding, publisher's blind stamps to corners of plates, variable spotting, volume 3 plate 51 with repaired closed tears, volume 4 plates 9 and 31 with paper restoration to blank areas of plate-marks, contemporary red half morocco, green morocco labels gilt to front boards, large folio (67 x 51.5 cm) (Qty: 2) Atabey 343 & Blackmer 476 refer. Two of five plate volumes of Antiquités from the second edition of the monumental encyclopaedia of Egypt, published while the first edition (1809-28) was still in progress. The second edition appears to have contained in total 11 plate volumes in large folio and 24 volumes of text in octavo.
[Egypt]. Description de l'Egypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont étét faite en Egypte pendant expédition de l'armée française. Antiquités, tome troisième [-quatrième], i.e. 2 volumes only, 2nd edition, Paris: C. K. F. Panckoucke, 1822, printed title-page to each volume, 133 engraved plates (of 141: lacking plates, 3, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 29 and 42 in volume 4), many plates double-page, a few also folding, publisher's blind stamps to corners of plates, variable spotting, volume 3 plate 51 with repaired closed tears, volume 4 plates 9 and 31 with paper restoration to blank areas of plate-marks, contemporary red half morocco, green morocco labels gilt to front boards, large folio (67 x 51.5 cm) (Qty: 2) Atabey 343 & Blackmer 476 refer. Two of five plate volumes of Antiquités from the second edition of the monumental encyclopaedia of Egypt, published while the first edition (1809-28) was still in progress. The second edition appears to have contained in total 11 plate volumes in large folio and 24 volumes of text in octavo.
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