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BELZONI´S TRAVELS IN EGYPT WITH PLATES (2). BELZONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA. Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia, and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice, and Another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. London (John Murray) 1820. + Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia. London (John Murray) 1820.

4to and large oblong folio for plate volume (267x210 mm and 480x610 mm). (2), v-xix, (1), 483, (1) pp. (Lacking half-title). Lithograph portrait frontispiece (of Belzoni in a native dress), 1 lithograph plate (lacking folding map of Egypt).
Atlas: (2, title and plate description), 44 engraved or lithographed plates and plans on 34 sheets (without the 6 plates published as supplement in 1822), all but 4 coloured by hand, some plates creased, occasional light soiling or foxing to plate margins, plate 27 with repaired tear to inner margin, vertical tear in the middle of plate 31 [between printed images], the map [39] somewhat soiled and with tears to margins, a few plates with minor tears to margins, printed leaves creased, title soiled.
Text in contemporary full calf, upper board detached, boards with blindtooled decor, split lower joint, richly gilt spine with black title label and raised bands. Atlas in contemporary half calf, rubbed and worn, upper board with printed title label, both boards detached. Text with only slight foxing, some slight markings with pencil or blue crayon to margins on a few pages. Both titles with owner´s stamp in red of Morton Edgar, Glasgow, Scotland.

Abbey, Travel 268, not in Atabey, The library of Henry M. Blackmeer II, 402 (Sotheby´s 1989). First editions.
A second edition was published in 1821, and a third published in 1822, but in octavo. Considered the first English work of any importance to use lithography (Atabey).
"These plates were intended to illustrate Belzoni´s Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries ... in Egypt and Nubia, 4to ... As many as eight colours are used on one plate for the coloured illustrations, and the colouring is skilfully done" - Abbey.

Text part lacks the folding map of Egypt.
Lacking the appendix on hieroglyphs by Thomas Young which is not always present in this first edition, as it was published in 1821. Also lacking the folding map which was in the appendix.

Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven ton bust of Ramesses II, the clearing of sand from the entrance of the great temple at Abu Simbel, the discovery and documentation of the tomb of Seti I (still sometimes known as "Belzoni´s Tomb"), and the first to penetrate into the second pyramid of Giza. (Wikipedia).

Konditionsrapport

See text Lacking folding map of Egypt, and half-title.

Auktionsnummer:

541113

Datum:

2018-06-19