Voyage Dans La Basse Et La Haute Egypte pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte

Paris: Henri Gaugain. , 1829.. A very good example, occasional minor browning.

. Edition: Second Edition. , Binding: contemporary quarter vellum over marbled paper boards, spine with 6 raised bands, title on two, marbled upper and lower endpapers, speckled edges. , Notes: Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1825) was a French artist, writer, diplomat, author, and archaeologist. He was appointed as the first Director of the Louvre museum by Napoleon after the Egyptian campaign of 1798–1801, and is commemorated in the Denon Wing of the modern museum and in the Dominique-Vivant Denon Research Center. His two-volume Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte ("Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt"), 1802, was the foundation of modern Egyptology. At Bonaparte's invitation he joined the expedition to Egypt as part of the arts and literature section of the Institut d'Égypte, and thus found the opportunity of gathering the materials for his most important literary and artistic work. He accompanied General Desaix to Upper Egypt, and made numerous sketches of the monuments of ancient art, sometimes under the very fire of the enemy. The results were published in his Voyage dans la basse et la haute Egypte (Journey in Lower and Upper Egypt), published as two volumes in 1802. The work crowned his reputation both as an archaeologist and as an artist, and sparked the Egyptian Revival in architecture and decorative arts., Size: Large Folio (563 x 405 mm, Illustration: Illustrated complete 178 engraved plates on Egyptology and the first time illustrating new discoveries. Denton had accompanied Napoleon's expedition to Egypt, and the present series of plates are among the great artistic achievements of that monumental campaign. , Volume: Plate volume only., Category: Book Africa Egypt; Book Plate Books General;