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BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph (1777-1852)
L'Egypte et la Syrie, ou Moeurs, Usages, Costumes et Monumens des Egyptiens, des Arabes et des Syriens. Précédé d'un Précis historique. Paris: Nepveu, 1814.
First edition, abundantly and beautifully illustrated with 84 finely hand-coloured plates, many double-page. The double-page plates are mostly reduced versions of the plates in Mayer’s work on Egypt. For this book on Egypt and Syria Breton de la Martinière enlisted the help of Jean-Joseph Marcel, one of the scholars who accompanied Napoleon to Egypt in 1798. He supplied Breton de la Martinière with drawings he had made in the course of his visit to the east and which Breton de la Martinière added to versions of Luigi Mayer’s published in England over ten years earlier. The text gives much information about the customs, the religions and the antiquities of Egypt, but also gives a fascinating description of the recent French occupation. A fine, very fresh copy. Atabey 148; Bobins IV, 1254-2; Brunet I, 1226; Blackmer, 200; Colas 438;
6 tomes in 3 volumes (133 x 181mm). 84 engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand, several folding (light age toning very rare marginal spotting). Contemporary quarter calf over mottled-paper covered boards, spines with gilt and black ruled raised bands, tan morocco labels gilt, all edges marbled. Provenance: Marquis de Lurcy-Lévis, Baron de Champoux et de Montvrin (engraved armorial bookplate).
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BRETON DE LA MARTINIÈRE, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph (1777-1852)
L'Egypte et la Syrie, ou Moeurs, Usages, Costumes et Monumens des Egyptiens, des Arabes et des Syriens. Précédé d'un Précis historique. Paris: Nepveu, 1814.
First edition, abundantly and beautifully illustrated with 84 finely hand-coloured plates, many double-page. The double-page plates are mostly reduced versions of the plates in Mayer’s work on Egypt. For this book on Egypt and Syria Breton de la Martinière enlisted the help of Jean-Joseph Marcel, one of the scholars who accompanied Napoleon to Egypt in 1798. He supplied Breton de la Martinière with drawings he had made in the course of his visit to the east and which Breton de la Martinière added to versions of Luigi Mayer’s published in England over ten years earlier. The text gives much information about the customs, the religions and the antiquities of Egypt, but also gives a fascinating description of the recent French occupation. A fine, very fresh copy. Atabey 148; Bobins IV, 1254-2; Brunet I, 1226; Blackmer, 200; Colas 438;
6 tomes in 3 volumes (133 x 181mm). 84 engraved plates coloured by a contemporary hand, several folding (light age toning very rare marginal spotting). Contemporary quarter calf over mottled-paper covered boards, spines with gilt and black ruled raised bands, tan morocco labels gilt, all edges marbled. Provenance: Marquis de Lurcy-Lévis, Baron de Champoux et de Montvrin (engraved armorial bookplate).
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No VAT is payable on the hammer price or the buyer's premium for this lot. Please see the VAT Symbols and Explanation section of the Conditions of Sale for further information
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