ERRATUM: 2 leaves, pages 171 to 174 (notebook 44), are missi - Lot 117

ERRATUM: 2 leaves, pages 171 to 174 (notebook 44), are missing and attached as photocopies. CHAMPOLLION (Jean-Francois). Dictionnaire égyptien en écriture hiéroglyphique publié d'après les manuscrits autographes par M. Champollion Figeac. Paris, F. Didot frères, 1841-1843. In-folio, [2] f., XXXVI-487 p., paperback, in contemporary cover, full margins (spine replaced, stamp scratched on cover). Posthumous first edition based on the manuscripts left by Champollion. Printed in lithography, the text includes a very large number of hieroglyphic figures. The date on the title is 1841, that on the press proof 1843. The cover is that of an issue of Monuments de l'Egypte et de la Nubie.