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GAU, Franois-Chrtien ( ). Antiquits de la Nubie, ou monumens indits des bords du Nil, situs entre la premire et la seconde cataracte. Paris: Paul Renouard for Firmin Didot, 1822-1827.
Broadsheet (690 x 510mm). Half-title. 64 engraved plans and views (5 hand-colored), 12 engraved plates of inscriptions, 13 engraved vignettes used as head-pieces (2 hand-colored), 2 engraved tail-pieces. (Letterpress explanation leaf to plates 27-32 tron on half horizontally and crudely repaired, some spotting, marginal in the main.) Contemporary green-stained vellum-backed marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece, uncut.
First edition in French (a german edition seems to have appeared simultaneously). Blackmer 656; Brunet II.1504 ("bel ouvrage").
Broadsheet (690 x 510mm). Half-title. 64 engraved plans and views (5 hand-colored), 12 engraved plates of inscriptions, 13 engraved vignettes used as head-pieces (2 hand-colored), 2 engraved tail-pieces. (Letterpress explanation leaf to plates 27-32 tron on half horizontally and crudely repaired, some spotting, marginal in the main.) Contemporary green-stained vellum-backed marbled boards, black morocco lettering-piece, uncut.
First edition in French (a german edition seems to have appeared simultaneously). Blackmer 656; Brunet II.1504 ("bel ouvrage").