Gau (Francois Chretien). Antiquities de la Nubie, ou monumens inedits des bords du Nil, situes entre la premiere et la seconde cataracte, Stuggart & Paris, 1822, half title, 78 engraved plates, including five hand-coloured, 13 engraved vignettes (two hand-coloured), p.3 with horizontal closed tear, some mainly light spotting and soiling, hinges reinforced, contemporary morocco-backed boards, a little rubbed with some wear at lower corners, folio (Qty: 1) Blackmer 656 (listing only four hand-coloured plates): 'Gau studied architecture in Paris and then spent four years in Italy. In 1819 he continued on to Egypt where he conceived the project of describing the monuments above the first cataract of the Nile. He travelled as far as the second cataract and recorded all the monuments along that stretch of the Nile.'
Gau (Francois Chretien). Antiquities de la Nubie, ou monumens inedits des bords du Nil, situes entre la premiere et la seconde cataracte, Stuggart & Paris, 1822, half title, 78 engraved plates, including five hand-coloured, 13 engraved vignettes (two hand-coloured), p.3 with horizontal closed tear, some mainly light spotting and soiling, hinges reinforced, contemporary morocco-backed boards, a little rubbed with some wear at lower corners, folio (Qty: 1) Blackmer 656 (listing only four hand-coloured plates): 'Gau studied architecture in Paris and then spent four years in Italy. In 1819 he continued on to Egypt where he conceived the project of describing the monuments above the first cataract of the Nile. He travelled as far as the second cataract and recorded all the monuments along that stretch of the Nile.'
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