DENON (Dominique Vivant). Planches du voyage dans la Basse e - Lot 199

DENON (Dominique Vivant). Planches du voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Égypte. S.l.n.d. [Paris, Imprimerie de Didot, An X (1802)]. Atlas in-folio, red morocco half-basin with corners, smooth spine decorated, untrimmed (contemporary binding). Atlas comprising a title leaf and 143 beautiful plates numbered 1 to 141, 20 bis and 54 bis, representing views, monuments, hieroglyphs, scenes of life, animals, etc. (Gay, n°1998. - Ibrahim-Hilmy, I, p. 172.) Denon was the first to draw the monuments of Upper Egypt, and his return to France with Bonaparte made him the first artist to publish reproductions of this distant civilization, which made his work extremely popular (De Meulenaere, pp. 62-64). Missing plates no. 12, 29 and 37. Without text volume. Some foxing, a few plates yellowed. Faded binding.