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Description de l’Egypte par Maillet.
2. v.
12
mo.
1815 Catalogue, page 121, no. 43, as above.
MAILLET,
Benoît de.
Description de l’Egypte, contenant Plusieurs Remarques Curieuses sur la Geographie ancienne et moderne de ce Païs, sur ses
Monumens anciens, sur les Mœurs, les Coûtumes & la Religion des Habitans, sur le Gouvernement & le Commerce, sur les Animaux,
les Arbes, les Plantes, &c. Composée sur les Mémoires de Monsieur de Maillet, Ancien Consul de France au Caire, par M. l’Abbé Le Mascrier. Ouvrage enrichi de Cartes & de Figures. Tome Premier. [-Second.]
A
La Haye: chez
Isaac Beauregard,
mdccxl
. [1740.]
2 vol. 12mo. 177 and 206 leaves, titles printed in red and black, engraved folded frontispiece, folded engraved plates in
both volumes.
Quérard V, 441.
This edition not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
Gay 2105 (under Lemascrier).
This edition not in Ibrahim-Hilmy.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Froullé in Paris on September 24, 1788, price
12. It is entered by him at this price on his undated manuscript catalogue.
Benoît de Maillet, 1656-1738, was at different times consul general of France in Egypt, ambassador in Abyssinia, and inspector of French affairs
in the Levant and on the coasts of Barbary. On his return to Marseilles he prepared this description of Egypt, and sent it
to the abbé Jean Baptiste Lemascrier, 1697-1760, for revision and publication.
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Lettres sur l’Egypte par Savary.
3. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 121, no. 155, as above.
SAVARY,
Claude Etienne.
Lettres sur l’Égypte, où l’on offre le parallèle des mœurs anciennes & modernes de ses habitans, où l’on décrit l’état, le
commerce, l’agriculture, le gouvernement du pays, & la descente de S. Louis à Damiette, tirée de Joinville & des Auteurs Arabes,
avec des Cartes Géographiques. Par M. Savary.
A
Paris: [
J. Ch. Desaint] Chez
Onfroi,
m. dcc. lxxxv. [-
m. dcc. lxxxvi.]
Avec Approbation, & Privilége du Roi. [1785-86.]
First Edition. 3 vol. 8vo. 205, 158 and 158 leaves, folded engraved maps and plates by E. Giraud; the second and third volumes have the volume number in the title.
Quérard VIII, 492.
This edition not in Brunet and not in Boucher de la Richarderie.
Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 214.
Gay 1622.
Jefferson bought a copy from
Froullé in Paris on June 27, 1787, price
15. and another on August 16 in the same year, price
18. The price entered by him on his undated manuscript catalogue is
17.5.
Claude Etienne Savary, 1750-1788, French traveller, went to Egypt in 1776, where he remained for three years, and returned to France in 1781 having
spent the intervening time in Greece and the Archipelago. These letters, which were soon translated into English, German,
Dutch and Swedish, were dedicated to Monsieur, the brother of the King, and addressed to his friend Lemmonier.
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Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte par Volney.
2. v.
8
vo.
1815 Catalogue, page 121, no. 154, as above.
VOLNEY,
Constantin François Chasseboeuf, comte de.
Voyage en Syrie et en Égypte, pendant les Années 1783, 1784 et 1785, avec deux Cartes géographiques et deux Planches gravées,
représentant les Ruines du
