Author: Reuvens, Casper Jacob Christiaan.
Title: Lettres à M. Letronne [...] sur les Papyrus Bilingues et Grecs, et sur quelques autres monumens Gréco-Égyptiens du Musée d'Antiquités de l'Université de Leide. [COMPLETE SET OF TWO VOLUMES: TEXT & ATLAS].
Description: À Leide, chez S. et J. Luchtmans, 1830. 2 vols. [1],89,57,164,[2] (= 2 double-page leaves of handmade paper, numbered 3* & 16*) pp. (text vol., 3 parts bound in 1. 4to.) - [AND:] 6 pp. 1 engraved b./w. plate & 5 lithographed b./w. plates (Atlas vol. Folio). Uniform contemp. not orig. blank wrappers. Scarce complete set of 4 parts in 2 volumes. Contains the 3 letters: I: Papyrus bilingues; II: Monument en marbre; III: Papyrus grecs. With the Appendix: Papyrus bilingue, et livre magique, postérieurement reçus. - - Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens (22 January 1793 - 26 July 1835) was a Dutch historian and archaeologist. He was the founding director of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Dutch National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden, the world's first ever professor of archaeology (at Leiden University) and conducted the first excavations at the Roman provincial site Forum Hadriani in the Netherlands.

Keywords: Archaeology Egypt Mummy Greece Orient Archeologie Egypte Mummies Griekenland Oriënt