[Louis COLBERT] LE MASCRIER Abbé Jean-Baptiste :

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[Louis COLBERT] LE MASCRIER Abbé Jean-Baptiste :
Description de l'Egypte contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la Géographie ancienne et moderne de ce païs. In-4 full caramel calf WITH THE ARMS of Louis COLBERT, marquis de Livière : stained boards, arms in the center, spine with 5 nerves decorated with a figure, three edges with speckles, restorations to the hinges. Paris, chez Louis Genneau et Jacques Rollin, 1735. First edition "composed on the Memoirs of M. de MAILLET, former Consul of France in Cairo". Complete with the frontispiece: portrait of Benoît de Maillet engraved by Jeaurat, the folding map and the 7 plates out of text. Handwritten bookplate "Le Cte de Marsane" on the title page. Some spotting else fresh inside. Important text written from the memoirs of Benoît de MAILLET, Consul of France in Egypt. First French descriptions of this region well before the famous expeditions of Napoleon and Denon who will continue the work of description started here.
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