DENON, Dominique Vivant, Baron (1746-1825). Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Gnral Bonaparte. London: Cox, Son & Baylis for Peltier, 1802. 2 vols. 4o (288 x 235 mm) text, 2o (481 x 295 mm) atlas. Half-title in each text vol., atlas with engraved frontispiece, letterpress title-page with list of plates on verso, 60 numbered engravings (excluding frontispiece, including the folding map, nos. 44/45, 56/57, and 59/60 are each on one sheet), many double-page. (Some leaves spotted in vol. 1, half-title creased in vol. II, edges of plate sheets darkened in atlas.) Text in contemporary tree calf, atlas in contemporary half calf and marbled boards (all vols. with modern rebacking, atlas with corner leather renewed, corner of text vols. worn, atlas board edges worn). London issue from the first edition of the same year at Paris with the atlas reduced. Provenance: Royal Institution of Great Britain (ink stamp on title-page of atlas). (3)

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DENON, Dominique Vivant, Baron (1746-1825). Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte, pendant les campagnes du Gnral Bonaparte. London: Cox, Son & Baylis for Peltier, 1802. 2 vols. 4^o (288 x 235 mm) text, 2^o (481 x 295 mm) atlas. Half-title in each text vol., atlas with engraved frontispiece, letterpress title-page with list of plates on verso, 60 numbered engravings (excluding frontispiece, including the folding map, nos. 44/45, 56/57, and 59/60 are each on one sheet), many double-page. (Some leaves spotted in vol. 1, half-title creased in vol. II, edges of plate sheets darkened in atlas.) Text in contemporary tree calf, atlas in contemporary half calf and marbled boards (all vols. with modern rebacking, atlas with corner leather renewed, corner of text vols. worn, atlas board edges worn). London issue from the first edition of the same year at Paris with the atlas reduced. Provenance: Royal Institution of Great Britain (ink stamp on title-page of atlas). (3)