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Folio. With a total of 78 plates. Pp. viii, 20, 13 leaves of explanation of the pates, plus 64 plates including 5 in colors; 29, plus 14 plates. Hardcover, bound in handsome contemporary quarter calf and pebbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering. Some blemishes to one plate else in a very good condition. ~ First edition. Franz Christian Gau (1790-1853). French architect of German origin, born in Cologne but was naturalized French in 1826, changing his given names to François Chrétien. His monumental work was published in installments throughout a period of seven years. It was intended as a supplement to the "Description de l'Égypte" but Champolion criticized the accuracy of the drawings. Beinlich-Seeber 8482. Very rare.
1804ref. 50432London, Taylor and Co., 1804. - Atlas: (Paris, Didot, 1802). 4to (30x24 cm.) and folio (54x42 cm.). Two contemporary half calf. Gilt spines and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. XVI,198,(2)"(2),131,(8) pp. Wide-margined. A few scattered brownspots. Atlas-volume, bound in contemporary half calf with wear to spine and spine-end as well as corners, is complete and contains 143 engraved plates (numb. 1-141 + 20bis a. 54bis), some large and folded. The plates with views, antiquities, architecture, maps etc. etc. A few scattered brownspots, some plates with faint marginal dampstaining.
1804London, Taylor and Co., 1804. - Atlas: (Paris, Didot, 1802). 4to (30x24 cm.) and folio (54x42 cm.). Two contemporary half calf. Gilt spines and titlelabels with gilt lettering. Spines a bit rubbed. XVI,198,(2) "(2),131,(8) pp. Wide-margined. A few scattered brownspots. Atlas-volume, bound in contemporary half calf with wear to spine and spine-end as well as corners, is complete and contains 143 engraved plates (numb. 1-141 + 20bis a. 54bis), some large and folded. The plates with views, antiquities, architecture, maps etc. etc. A few scattered brownspots, some plates with faint marginal dampstaining.
Two volumes. I. Text: Octavo. PP. xix, 438. Plus frontispiece portrait of the author, one engraved plates and a large folding map; II. Plates: Folio. Comprising of 34 heavy leaves with a total of 44 plates, some in colour, mostly one to a page, often compound. Hardcover, nicely bound in matching contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Save for some minor imperfections in fine condition. ~ First edition. Text volume second edition. "As I made my discoveries alone, I have been anxious to write my book by myself, though in so doing, the reader will consider me, and with great propriety, guilty of temerity; but the public will perhaps gain in the fidelity of my narrative, what it loses in elegance." - Preface.
1755Copenhague, l'Imprimerie de la maison Royale des Orphelins, 1755. Folio. (46 x 30,5 cm.). Bound in 2 fine contemp. full sprinckled calf. Gilt triple filets on covers. Seven raised bands. Richly gilt compartments. Gilt lettering on spines. Gilt fillet on edges of covers. Red edges. Some repairs at hinges and spine ends, done so it is barely noticed. Engraved portrait, engraved frontispiece. (40),288 pp. and 159 engraved maps, plates and views. A small embossed stamp on top of title-page ""Det Lerchenborgske Bibliothek"". A small brownspot on pp. 204-5. Otherwise clean and fine with wide margins. Printed on thick paper.