Lot 1219
1219
MARITIME HISTORY - TRAVELLING -- DENON, D-V. Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte. 2e éd. Paris, H. Gaugain & Chaillou, 1829. W. front.-portr. & 143 plates (numbered 1-141, 20 bis & 54 bis). Elephant folio. Cont. hcf. (Lower spine end repaired, upper hinge broken, sides scuffed, some waterstains at beginning, some spots, margins dusty).
"'Denon was the first to reveal the richness of Egyptian art to Europe' (Blackmer Catalogue) having worked in extremely difficult cirumstances during Napoleon's Egyptian campaign." Sotheby, the Blackmer Collection, 546.€ 1100
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