DENON, Dominique Vivant. - Lot 110

DENON, Dominique Vivant. Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte pendant les campagnes du général Bonaparte. A Paris, de l'Imprimerie de P. Didot l'Aîné, An X, 1802. Broadside (70 x 52.6 cm). Title and 137 plates out of 143, on laid paper (without plates 20bis, 93 and 127 to 130). Contemporary tan half-basane with corners (spine missing, six plates lacking, stains, wetness, ink discharges, many plates remain fresh). First edition. First edition. Famous and rare work, one of the first accounts of this mission published before the official Description... The only atlas from the first edition of this magnificent work by Dominique Vivant Denon, one of the members of the Egyptian expedition. Copper-engraved illustrations by or after Vivant Denon, bearing hundreds of finely engraved compositions on copper in black. Without the lithographed portrait of the author, which was added later in only a few copies. De Meulenaere, 62. Blackmer, 471. [Egypt].