Buy this book on-line NERET, GILLES - Edited by: : DESCRIPTION OF EGYPY - Napoleon and the PharaohsGERMANY.KOLN.TASCHEN GmbH,2001. ISBN 3822855537.
UK,slim 8vo s/back Original,illustrated,1st edn.[Although a German publisher - the introduction by/of Gilles Neret is in 3 languages; English, German and French.The rest of the text and advertisements are obviously in English.] Paperback/softback original denotes the first format and its first appearance in print of the book/title.Paperbacks usually follow on from the HB edn,but can be published at the same time as the HB edn,but p/b and softback originals are published prior to any other format. [A title in Taschen's ICONS series.] FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover,absence of publisher's price.Bright,crisp,clean and generally sharp-cornered,matt,colour photographic illustrated front cover with capitalised, glossy,white-lettered title, editor's flat printed,matt white-lettered name, rear cover with colour photograph and "ghost" of an adhesive price label's removal.Negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges+corners - no nicks or tears present - and no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.UK,slim 8vo wraps,p/back original,illustrated,1st edn,6-199pp [paginated] includes profuse contemporary colour reproduction illustrations and colour photographs of Egyptian architecture,locations, views,monuments,wall murals and heiroglyphs etc; plus [unpaginated] half-title with colour illustration to reverse,title page with colour painting detail reproduction [Bonaparte haranguing the troops before the Battle of the Pyramids,21 July 1798 by Jean-Antoine Gros] to it's reverse. Visually,the external appearance is exceptional,and particularly internally is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of it’s 20+ year-old age and nature, i.e. softback. It really is still an exceptional,exemplary example for it’s brightnesss,cleanliness and lack of othe or age- acquired detracting faults usually encountered in a softback. A hugely ambitious and comprehensive work, the ten volumes of "Description de L'Egypte" were originally published following Napoleon Bonaparte's 1798 invasion of Egypt.This book presents highlights carefully plucked from the original masterwork in which discoveries of ancient Egyptian civilization, such as the Rosetta stone and the Valley of the Kings,were first revealed to the European world.
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