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Published by Leide, E. J. Brill, 1853-62., 1853
Seller: Librarium of The Hague, The Hague, Netherlands
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: . 1st Edition. Elephant folio (55x38 cm). Pp. (2) title-page (verso blank), 19 (verso blank), printed in letterpress on 5 folding sheets of 55x76 cm each; and 78 (of 87) single-sheet coloured lithograph plates, several of which are double-page. Loose as issued, without wrappers; light dampmark at outer margin of text section, well away from printed area. In a very good condition. Clean and neat, well preserved. ~ FIRST EDITION. Contains 78 plates, numbered XCVIII-CLXXXIV. Lacks 9 plates (CV-CXIII). Text by François Joseph Chabas. Plates drawn and lithographed from the stone by T. Hooiberg. Conradus Leemans (1809-1893) was the first Egyptologist to publish a systematic catalogue of all the contents of one of the major European Egyptological collections. He began the great official gouvernment publication of the monuments and papyri in the Leiden collection in 1839, which appeared in parts from then until 1882. Beinlich-Seeber 11574, attributing the work to Leemans. FOLIO.