Hubert-Pascal AMEILHON
Eclaircissemens sur l'inscription grecque du monument trouvé à Rosette, contenant un décret des prêtres de l'Egypte en l'honneur de Ptolémée Epiphane, le cinquième des Rois Ptolémées. Imprimé par ordre de l'Institut[Clarifications on the Greek Inscription of the Monument Found at Rosetta, Containing a Decree of the Priests of Egypt in Honour of Ptolemy Epiphanes, the Fifth of the Ptolemaic Kings. Printed by Order of the Institute]
Baudouin|Paris Floréal An IX [1803]|21 x 25 cm|Broché
First edition illustrated with a large folding plate inserted out of text reproducing the Greek portion of the Rosetta Stone (cf. Quérard I, 48.)
Our copy is preserved in its original wrappers, in temporary root-pattern paper covers.
A key figure in the establishment of literary repositories during the Revolution, and their transformation into libraries, the antiquarian Hubert-Pascal Ameilhon (1730-1811) remains an important, though far too neglected, figure in bibliography and the sciences.
This relative oblivion owes much to the small number of works published during his lifetime : the work offered here constitutes an essential link in the decipherment of the hierog
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