Auguste BAILLET
Pierre de Rosette, décret d'Alexandrie, décret de Canope, décret de Memphis, tablettes de Tell el-Amarna, Livre des MortsUnpublished set of Egyptian epigraphic works: Rosetta Stone, Decree of Alexandria, Decree of Canopus, Decree of Memphis, Tell el-Amarna tablets, Book of the Dead
circa 1870-1900|14.30 x 23.50 cm|en feuillets
Autograph manuscripts and epigraphic studies with several drawn maps (108 leaves and 86 half-leaves, as well as 28 pages with numerous glued papers) in paper folders and a notebook with a cloth cover titled “Decrees of Alexandria”. Numerous tears to the margins and paper folders, stained cloth cover.
Important unpublished set of epigraphy manuscripts by Egyptologist Auguste Baillet (1834-1923), colleague and friend of Gaston Maspero, the leader of French Egyptology.
Precious notebooks gathering the remarkable philological work of Auguste Baillet, who carried out from the 1860s until his death in 1923 meticulous transcriptions and translations of
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