Voyage à Méroé, au Fleuve Blanc, au-delà de Fazoql dans le Midi du Royaume de Sennar, à Syouah et dans cinq autres Oasis
Cailliaud, Frederic
Paris. De l'Imprimerie de Rignoux / Imprimé Du Roi. 1823–1827
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First edition of a very scarce work.
This work gives an account of Cailliaud's second journey to Egypt between 1819 to 1822 published in collaboration with Jomard, editor of the Description de l'Egypte. He visited the oasis of Siwah and Jupiter Ammon and accompanied the military expedition of Ismail Pasha (son of Mehmet Ali) to Nubia, where he explored the ruins of the ancient city of Meroe, remarkable for its two hundred pyramids. The work is of particular importance for its abundance of detail of contemporary Egypt, its people and antiquities. Cailliaud was a French traveller and mineralogist, who first visited Egypt in 1815. Between then and 1818 he was employed by Mehmet Ali to find the emerald mines of Mount Zabarah.
The original subscribers to the work included Panckouke (the publisher of the second edition of the Description de l'Egypte), Denon, Langlès, Forbin and Baron Cuvier; the British Museum is also listed as an original subscriber 'Musée britannique').
This work gives an account of Cailliaud's second journey to Egypt between 1819 to 1822 published in collaboration with Jomard, editor of the Description de l'Egypte. He visited the oasis of Siwah and Jupiter Ammon and accompanied the military expedition of Ismail Pasha (son of Mehmet Ali) to Nubia, where he explored the ruins of the ancient city of Meroe, remarkable for its two hundred pyramids. The work is of particular importance for its abundance of detail of contemporary Egypt, its people and antiquities. Cailliaud was a French traveller and mineralogist, who first visited Egypt in 1815. Between then and 1818 he was employed by Mehmet Ali to find the emerald mines of Mount Zabarah.
The original subscribers to the work included Panckouke (the publisher of the second edition of the Description de l'Egypte), Denon, Langlès, Forbin and Baron Cuvier; the British Museum is also listed as an original subscriber 'Musée britannique').
6 vols.: 4 vols. 8vo. (Text) + 2 vols. in 1. Folio (Plates). Dedication leaf 'Au Roi' bound in before half-title of vol. I, each plate vol. with half-title, title, 'explication des planches' (pp. xxiv; xvi) and 75 plates numbered I - LXXV including the large folding map in vol. II numbered LIV and LV, as well as 15 plates in text volumes including 12 hand-coloured plates by Blanchard. The large plates, all after Cailliaud are lithographs by Engelmann or engravings by various engravers.
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