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Description de L'Egypte by Taschen (2007, Trade Paperback)
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In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte launched an expedition of 35,000 soldiers to conquer Egypt. The campaign was a military and political disaster but nonetheless it had a profound and lasting impact, by revealing the splendour of a mysterious and forgotten civilization.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaschen
ISBN-10382283775X
ISBN-139783822837757
eBay Product ID (ePID)27038747729
Product Key Features
Edition25
Book TitleDescription De L'egypte
Number of Pages752 Pages
LanguageEng,Fre,Ger
Publication Year2007
TopicArchaeology, Ancient / Egypt, History / Ancient & Classical, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
IllustratorYes
GenreArt, Architecture, Social Science, History
AuthorTaschen
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.9 in
Item Weight48.1 Oz
Item Length7.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal962.03
SynopsisIn 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte launched an expedition of 35,000 soldiers to conquer Egypt. The campaign was a military and political disaster but nonetheless it had a profound and lasting impact, by revealing the splendour of a mysterious and forgotten civilization. For Napoleon's ships also carried some 500 scholars, scientists and artists whose task it was to study the country and its customs. Traversing a country at war under the stifling heat of southern Egypt, they embarked on the first major study of a land then all but unknown to Europeans. They discovered the Valley of the Kings outside Thebes. They found the Rosetta stone which when deciphered enabled scholars to read hieroglyphics. And their combined efforts culminated in what is surely one of the most ambitiously comprehensive work ever published: the Description de I'Egypte in 10 volumes with 837 copperplate engravings and more than 3,000 drawings. It was as though they were cataloguing the world's richest museum covering three major themes with their work: ""Antiqutes,"" ""Etat Moderne"" and ""Histoire Naturelle,"" the first two of which are reproduced fully in this special edition., In 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte launched an expedition of 35,000 soldiers to conquer Egypt. The campaign was a military and political disaster but nonetheless it had a profound and lasting impact, by revealing the splendour of a mysterious and forgotten civilization. For Napoleon's ships also carried some 500 scholars, scientists and artists whose task it was to study the country and its customs. Traversing a country at war under the stifling heat of southern Egypt, they embarked on the first major study of a land then all but unknown to Europeans. They discovered the Valley of the Kings outside Thebes. They found the Rosetta stone which when deciphered enabled scholars to read hieroglyphics. And their combined efforts culminated in what is surely one of the most ambitiously comprehensive work ever published: the Description de I'Egypte in 10 volumes with 837 copperplate engravings and more than 3,000 drawings. It was as though they were cataloguing the world's richest museum covering three major themes with their work: "Antiqutes," "Etat Moderne" and "Histoire Naturelle," the first two of which are reproduced fully in this special edition.
LC Classification NumberDT47
