Description de l'Egypte contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la geographie ancienne et moderne de ce pais, sur les monumens anciens, sur les moeurs, les coutumes & la religion des habitans, sur le gouvernement & le commerce, sur les animaux, les arbres, les plantes, &c composee sur les memoires de M. de Maillet

Benoit de Maillet; Jean-Baptiste Le Mascrie

A Paris : chez Louis Genneau et [chez] Jacques Rollin fils, 1735

[Early Egyptology]  Quarto, 26 x 19.5 cm.  Bound in contemporary leather.  Spine gilt.  Title label chipped. Some spotting to end pages, but nice besides.  All edges gilt. xxi, [3], 328, 242, [10] p.  Frontispiece portrait of Benoit de Maillet by Jeaurat. Folding map and 7 plates. Ref: Atabey 754; Blackmer 1061. Maillet was the French Consul in Cairo from 1692 to 1708.  He was an early archeologist, studying the pyramids and bringing to France numerous early Egyptian, Coptic and Arab artifacts and manuscripts.  

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