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LE MASCRIER, Jean-Baptiste.- Description de l...
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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2003 Mar 29 @ 10:30UTC+1
LE MASCRIER, Jean-Baptiste.- Description de l'Egypte, contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la géographie ancienne et moderne de ce païs [...] composées sur les mémoires de Monsieur de Maillet. Paris, chez Rollin Fils (tome I) et La Haye, Isaac Beauregard (tome II), 1740. 2 vol. in-12° : portrait en front., [26]-328 pp., 1 carte, 4 h.-t., [2]-397-[11] pp., 3 h.-t. (taches et mouill. margin. à qqs pp., pet. déchir. margin. aux planches sans perte et renforcées). Rel. de l'époque : plein veau, dos fleuronnés dorés à nerfs, pièces de titre de maroq. rouge, tranches rouges (coins émoussés, rel. frottées, pet. manques aux coiffes, mors part. fendus).
Benoît de Maillet (1656-1738) était consul de la France au Caire. On lui doit non seulement l'identification du site de l'ancienne Memphis mais aussi des travaux préparatoires du déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes. Dans l'ouvrage présent, il témoigne de son grand intérêt pour les monuments de la Haute Egypte : la grande pyramide, l'aiguille de Cléopâtre et de Matarée, la colonne de Pompée à Alexandrie qu'il envisage même de transporter en France pour en faire un monument à la gloire de Louis XIV.... , tous ces sujets représentés en gravure sur sept planches dépliantes. Ses mémoires dont l'édition originale parut à Paris en 1735, ont été publiés par l'abbé le Mascrier auteur de l'"Idée du gouvernement ancien et moderne de l'Egypte" (Paris, 1743).
# Présence de l'Égypte, [Cat. expo.], Namur, 1994, 101/105 (tome I seul); # Chadenat 900 (ne compte que le frontispice, une carte et 5 planches); # Brunet III-969.
Provenances : Sussenaire (ex-libris); Libreria de Martinez de Tejada, Madrid (étiquette). 500 Euros
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