Precis du Systeme Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens ou Recherches

Jean-Francois Champollion

L'Imprimerie Royale, 1828

2 volumes, bound in 1. Second edition. xxiv, 468; 48 pages. 51 of 52 lithograph plates; 8 folding. Poor condition. Rebound in early mid-20th century red buckram. Library markings on various text leaves and plates throughout, affecting plates. Binding weak, crack to 112/3 and p128/9 resulting in quire of leaves loosing from block. Toning and foxing; offsetting and foxing to plates. Errata in volume I, and the half-title and title to volume II. "Champollion, whose claims were hotly disputed for manyyears after his death, is now universally acknowledged to have been the founder of Egyptology." EB V, 831; Brunet I, 1780. BM 5: 400 (794)