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Panthéon Égyptien, collection des personnages mythologiques de l'ancienne Égypte, d'après les monuments; avec un texte explicatif par M. J. F. Champollion le Jeune, et les figures d'après les dessins de M. L. J. J. Dubois
by Champollion, Jean-François; Dubois, Léon-Jean-Joseph
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About This Item
A Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, Imprimeur de Roi, rue Jacob, No. 24, 1825. First edition. Unbound as published. Wrapped into publisher's, blue printed wrappers. First edition. Unbound as published. Wrapped into publisher's, blue printed wrappers. [84] hand colored lithographs and the related text pages. Unbound.
A scarce copy of Champollion's richly illustrated, hand-colored Panthéon Égyptien.
Champollion's Panthéon Égyptien was originally published in a sequel of fifteen livraisons, the main part between 1823 and 1825, in different versions, therefore the structure and the content differ in most copies. The illustrations were made and vividly watercolored by Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois (illustrator and lithographer, also an archaeologist and curator at the Louvre museum), and eventually, 90 plates were published out of the 200 planned by Champollion. The plates of divine representations are accompanied by a legend in hieroglyphs and sometimes in hieratic script. In the corresponding text, Champollion offers the translations of the various names of the deities, an analysis of their respective roles, and provides references to classical authors and Greco-Latin mythology.
Our copy, with 84 plates, is one of the most complete one we could trace. We consulted the Lyon-copy (Rés 133145) which contains only 72 images and the two BnF copies (4-O3a-233; Arsenal 4-H-7617), of which one is incomplete and both lacks text leaves which our copy includes.
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- Foldvaribooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1925
- Title
- Panthéon Égyptien, collection des personnages mythologiques de l'ancienne Égypte, d'après les monuments; avec un texte explicatif par M. J. F. Champollion le Jeune, et les figures d'après les dessins de M. L. J. J. Dubois
- Author
- Champollion, Jean-François; Dubois, Léon-Jean-Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Unbound as published. Wrapped into publisher's, blue printed wrappers
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- de l'Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, Imprimeur de Roi, rue Jacob, No. 24
- Place of Publication
- A Paris
- Date Published
- 1825
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
Foldvaribooks
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As members of The Hungarian Antiquarian Bookseller's Association (MAE) we are also members ILAB-LILA(International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) and hence obliged to follow their Code of Ethic .
As members of The Hungarian Antiquarian Bookseller's Association (MAE) we are also members ILAB-LILA(International League of Antiquarian Booksellers) and hence obliged to follow their Code of Ethic .
About the Seller
Foldvaribooks
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Budapest
About Foldvaribooks
Földvári Books was founded in 2007 in Budapest and based in Budapest, Hungary.
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