DENON, Dominique Vivant, Baron de (1747-1825)

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Los 135 | DENON, Dominique Vivant, Baron de (1747-1825)
DENON, Dominique Vivant, Baron de (1747-1825)

Planches du voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte. [London: Samuel Bagster, 1807].

‘Denon was the first to reveal the richness of Egyptian art to Europe’ (Blackmer). Denon was a member of the Commission des Sciences et Arts which accompanied Napoleon to Egypt. Concerned that the official publication – the famous Description de l’Egypte – would be delayed, Denon decided to publish his own drawings and journals first in 1802. The present lot is a later English production from 1807. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return. See Blackmer 471.



Folio (500 x 304mm). Letterpress title and 2pp. list of contents, engraved frontispiece and 108 plates, many of which folding, including large area map, plans, views, and depictions of hieroglyphs and antiquities, plate 25 present as the frontispiece (lacking plate 84 listed in the contents as the frontispiece to vol. II, with plate 25 present as the frontispiece to the current vol., folding plate 72 torn in half, folding plates 49 and 74 with short tears into engraved image, browning and staining mainly confined to edges but sometime creeping into the images, scattered spotting throughout, some tiny marginal fraying and short tears). Modern half calf (extremities lightly rubbed, spine label starting to lift at one edge). Provenance: Philip Hewat-Jaboor (booklabel).

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