Pierre Didot l'ainé

Original print folio untrimmed extracted Travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt Vivant Denon. Board composed of two views as described by the author: No.1 Plan ruins and circumvallation of a temple of Isis, near Beibeth in the Delta: I have not seen this ruin, which I must map the general Dugua, who commanded the province of Garbié in the Delta, where the monuments are located within it. Plan No. 2 of the ruins of Sann or Zoan, the old Tanis, in the province of Charkié near Lake Menzaleh, the former capital and royal residence. I also like this map of the general Dugua; the square shape that stands out in this card was probably the enclosure of a temple or palace. The finished work of...

Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the light.

Original print folio untrimmed extracted Travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt Vivant Denon. Board composed of two views as described by the author: No.1 of the Sphinx, which reflects his state of destruction, and the character of this figure in the parts that are retained Profile: live characters are scaling of proportion; the one above the head, and that one with the hand, out of a narrow excavation completed by rubble, and has only 9 feet deep. Notches cut from space to space in the sides of the excavation will serve as a ladder to climb up and down in that hole, the use of which has remained on the night of mystery; the monument that we perceive is behind a kind of tomb in the kind of...

Original print folio untrimmed extracted Travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt Vivant Denon. Board composed of 10 views and described by the author: The No.1 Tolara, isle in front of the coast of Sardinia. No.2 Coast of Sardinia, in the evening, at the time of a storm, vis-à-vis the harbor of the Guilastre. No.3 Part of the island of Sardinia, from the small island to Cape Co Snaking, the back of which is the harbor of Cagliari, we gave up on our right. No. 4 View Maretimo, which we knew from the northwestern part; its luminary is almost always covered in clouds: the rock we perceive is behind the Favayane, and in the background the coast of Sicily. No. 5 The southwestern part of Maretimo...

Original print folio untrimmed extracted Travellers in Lower and Upper Egypt Vivant Denon. Board with 6 views and described by the author: No.1 View of the fleet and the convoy, drawn at sunset. No. 2 View of the city of Malta and the entry of its two ports, the northeastern part of the island. In the center, the city-Valletta; left, the entrance of the Grand Harbour, the City Vella and Fort S. Angelo; right, wearing Marza-Muchet the Lazaretto in the background and the same side of the city-Notable. No.3 View of Malta when the city and the forts began firing at the French fleet. No. 4 The interior of the Grand Harbour. City-Valette right; left, the batteries of Fort St. Angelo. N "5 The...

Original, unshaved, full-page etching from the “Imperial edition” of the Description de l'Égypte, or ‘Recueil des observations et recherches faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand [A Collection of the observations and research carried out in Egypt during the French expedition, published on the orders of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon the Great]’.

Produced between February 1802 and 1830 on the orders of Naopleon Bonaparte and published between 1809 and 1828, 1,000 copies were printed and distributed to institutions, on vergé paper with an 'Égypte ancienne et moderne' watermark, visible when held up to the...