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MARCEL, J.J. Fables de Loqman, surnommé le Sage. Edition Arabe, accompagnée d'une traduction française, et précédée d'une notice sur ce célèbre fabuliste. Cairo: Imprimerie Nationale, An VIII (1799). Small woodcut vignette on title. [Bound with:] Recueil des pièces relatives à la procédure et au jugement de Soleyman El-Hhaleby, assassin du Général en Chef Kleber. Ibid., 1799 [recte 1800]. Text in French, Arabic and Turkish. 2 works in one volume, 4° (206 x 144 mm). Contemporary marbled calf, narrow gilt border on covers, flat spine gilt with leather lettering-pieces (a little wear to joints). Provenance: Chatsworth Library (bookplate).
Two rare examples from the printing press established in Cairo under French rule by J. J. Marcel. Napoleon had ordered that two presses be set up on shipboard for the Egyptian campaign. The presses were combined first in Alexandria in late 1798 and then in the Citadel of Cairo, under the direction of J. J. Marcel, who also designed and cut the Arabic types. The press printed official publications and two journals, but few substantial works; Marcel's edition of Lokman's fables (an Arabian Aesop) is one of the finest of the latter. Jean-Baptiste Kleber (1753-1800), the outstanding general of the Egyptian expedition whom Napoleon called 'ce Mars en uniforme', was assassinated in Cairo on June 24 1800. His assassin was condemned to death by impalement. The Recueil contains the records of his and his accomplices' interrogations and the court's judgement. Schnurrer 142 and 422.
Two rare examples from the printing press established in Cairo under French rule by J. J. Marcel. Napoleon had ordered that two presses be set up on shipboard for the Egyptian campaign. The presses were combined first in Alexandria in late 1798 and then in the Citadel of Cairo, under the direction of J. J. Marcel, who also designed and cut the Arabic types. The press printed official publications and two journals, but few substantial works; Marcel's edition of Lokman's fables (an Arabian Aesop) is one of the finest of the latter. Jean-Baptiste Kleber (1753-1800), the outstanding general of the Egyptian expedition whom Napoleon called 'ce Mars en uniforme', was assassinated in Cairo on June 24 1800. His assassin was condemned to death by impalement. The Recueil contains the records of his and his accomplices' interrogations and the court's judgement. Schnurrer 142 and 422.