Memoire sur le Char Funeraire qui Transporta de Babylone en Egypte Le Corps D'Alexandere, ou Projet de restitution de ce Monument, d'apres la description de Diodore de Sicile; Memoire sur Le Bucher D'Hephestion, decrit part Diodore de Sicile: et sur la maniere de restituer ce Monument dans un systeme tout-a-fait different de celui de M. de Caylus

Paris, France: Memoires de Litteratures, 1808. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Exceedingly scarce in the trade, and available in only a small handful of academic libraries. Two articles, mostly in French but with snippets in Greek, published seemingly in First Edition state, and in structurally sound, attractive condition, having been disbound from a larger volume comprising contributions to the Memoires de Litteratures, a premiere social sciences and humanities journal founded in France by Armand-Gaston Camus in the 1790s. The first Memoire is pp. 315-394, still solidly together, string from binding slightly loose, with only mild sunning along edges of the rag paper, light foxing even lighter soiling thereto, else clean, unmarked. The 12-panel, laid in illustration at rear is titled "Plan et coupe du char funeraire qui transporta le corps d'Alexandre de Babylon en Egypte" (D'apres la description de Deorde de Sicile)." The Second Memoir is from pp. 395-456 and attached to which, tipped in, is another lovely rendering in black and white of an architectural drawing. Then laid in is a six-panel, three-fold, quite arrestingly beautiful illustration of an imagined funeral memorial or eventual mausoleum of Alexander the Great, being drawn on wheels to and throughout Egypt and Babylon by a legion of horses, titled "Restitutiton de la char funeraire qui transporta, de corps d'Alexander du Babylon en Egypte." Both texts ever so slightly wavy, but not from damp-staining, and the rag paper smells great. Else and withal, a lovely, scarce, intriguing set of articles about French appreciation for the classics and especially Alexander the Great. Fine and provocative illustrations.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.