DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE
by :
Napoleon Bonaparte
Preface by Sydney H. Aufrere
As of 20040512
That is May 12th, 2004 in English
As of 20040519, May Nineteen Two Thousand Four
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DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE
PUBLIE SOUS LES ORDRES DE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
BIBLIOTHEQUE DE L'IMAGE
Preface: Sydney H. Aufrere
Acheve d'imprimer en november 1993
ISBN: 9782909808086
This very rare book is hard bound with dust jacket. There is one tear
on the dust cover on the front cover. It forms a half moon appearance
about 2 inches with a little bit of crinkling at the bottom of the tear.
It is located where the dust cover folds into the book.
"A prize of the first magnitude, this book was a gift I bought myself
when I was in Paris this past summer. It is a new,
one-volume reprint of the original encyclopedic opus intended to catalogue
Napoleon's grand new territory-were he to
have successfully conquered Egypt, which he didn't exactly do. The book
is important not only from a historiographic
standpoint, but because Napoleon's team of artists and scientists meticulously
recorded features of sites and artefacts
which unfortunately did not survive later "archaeologists," scavengers,
tourists and black market profiteers. Although
this expedition and the paperwork it generated were seminal in the
later decryption of hieroglyphic writing and the
Egyptian language, none of the artists contributing to this volume
had any real idea of what the inscriptions they saw
said. Nonetheless, these men so accurately copied what they saw that
Description de l'Égypte has legibly preserved
huge inscriptions now otherwise lost. The artistry alone makes this
volume invaluable. This book is the compilation
of the collection of the drawings, etchings and everything that Napoleon
ordered his artists, historians etc to document
when he conquered Egypt. It is like actually being there at the time
of conquest and seeing the Majestic Awe that was Egypt.
You can spend days, nay, weeks just looking at all the detail just
as Napoleon's men saw them in all their splendor.
Thousands of expert drawings. Five volumes are contained within
this book." http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/alumnifriends/brooker/2002sample1.html
The picture on front cover is that of Pharaoh on his chariot surrounded by 4 Deities to the left and 4 Deities to the right.
Above the picture are two priests holding yellow birds and the priest on the left is green and the priest on the right is blue .
Drawings from the expediton were first published in the Description de l'Égypte series between 1809-1828.
One reprint of Description de l'Égypte was published by Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1998.
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE
PUBLIEE SOUS LES ORDRES DE NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
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DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE
by :
Napoleon Bonaparte
Preface by Sydney H. Aufrere
Bibliotheque De L'Image
Acheve d'imprimer en november 1993
DESCRIPTION DE L'EGYPTE
Photographs of pages in the book.
One exquisitely beautiful page
Slightly out of focus.
Every page in this book is enthralling in its beauty.
The dust jacket cover has minor damage which cannot be seen in the
photographs.
You can spend hours enjoying the exquisite arts.
You can know these arts and sculptures looked like back then,
through the artist's eyes, as their accuracy is uncanny
and much of the art is now no longer as it was.
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