Leemans, C. (Conrad). - Papyrus égyptien funéraire hiéroglyphique du Musée d'Antiquités des Pays-Bas à Leide, (Description raisonnée T. 1). Publié d'apres le ordres du Gouvernement. (Monuments égyptiens).

Leide, E. J. Brill, 1841-42. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Elephant folio (54x38 cm). Title-page on a single-sheet leaf (verso blank). Plus 15 colour lithograph plates with separating tissue-guards. Original printed wrappers, separated. In fine internal condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Dawn and lithographed from the stone by T. Hooiberg. Conradus Leemans (1809-1893) was the first Egyptologist to publish a systematic catalogue of all the contents of one of the major European Egyptological collections. He began the great official gouvernment publication of the monuments and papyri in the Leiden collection in 1839, which appeared in parts from then until 1882. Several gelatin silver photographs of a sections of the actual Papyrus are included. Beinlich-Seeber 11573. FOLIO .

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