[Egypt] Memoirs on Egypt published during General Bonaparte’s campaigns in...

[Egypt] Memoirs on Egypt published during General Bonaparte’s campaigns in Years VI and VII. Paris, Printed by P. Didot the Elder, Year VIII [1800]. One volume, in-8, in period calfskin with natural grain, smooth spine with decorative embellishments, and triple gilt fillets framing the covers. VIII, 411 pp., 2 pl.

2 large fold-out maps depicting Lake Menzaleh and the Natron Lakes Valley.

First edition of the first volume of this important scientific collection resulting from the work of the Institute of Egypt, comprising primarily papers previously published in *La Décade égyptienne*, to which several unpublished texts were added. It brings together the works of the leading scholars who accompanied Bonaparte’s expedition, including Monge, Berthollet, Fourier, Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Savigny, Desgenettes, Malus, Andréossy, Costaz, Nectoux, and Vivant Denon. In particular, it contains Gaspard Monge’s famous “Memoir on the Optical Phenomenon Known as the Mirage” (pp. 64–79).