Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
- Description De L’egypte' To Be Restored
Ahram Online (Nevine el-Aref) After decades hidden on the shelves of the library of the Antiquities Documentation Centre, a genuine copy of La Description de L’Egypte is now being restored. Today the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) transported...
- Original Copy Of La Description De L'egypte To Be Sold At Auction
Christie's Christie’s proudly announces the sale of the Michel Wittock Collection, Part IV, which will be held in Paris on May 11. As well as an exceptional copy of the famous Description de l’Egypte, bound by Jean-Joseph Tessier in polished...
- 'egypt Unveiled' Exhibition On View At Firestone
Princeton University "Egypt Unveiled: The Mission of Napoleon's Savants," an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of a seminal publication of Egyptian history, will be on view from Dec. 21 through May 10 in the main gallery of Firestone Library....
- More On 'le Déscription' At The Dahesh
http://tinyurl.com/kxwja (nj.com) "The Dahesh Museum has a show devoted to 'Le Déscription', Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt, that includes many engravings and two rare complete editions. The "Déscription"...
- Digitization Of Description De L’Égypte
http://www.bibalex.org/isis/News/23052005.htm Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the following news item. The preservation of the valuable collection of Description de l’Égypte has been completed by the International School of Information Science (ISIS)...
Egypt
A second origianl copy of 'Description' is available in Egypt
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
Librarian Marie Bryan, manager of Chicago House Library it Luxor, has announced that they have a handwritten copy of the famous book ‘Description De l’Egypt’ and that it is open for researchers and Luxor habitants to read.
Bryan said the copy they have consists of 20 volumes, compiled during the campaign when Napoleon came to Egypt in the eighteenth century by a number of scholars and scientists from a range of disciplines. The book’s full title in English is ‘Description of Egypt: the collection of researches and observations on Egypt during the French campaign.’
- Description De L’egypte' To Be Restored
Ahram Online (Nevine el-Aref) After decades hidden on the shelves of the library of the Antiquities Documentation Centre, a genuine copy of La Description de L’Egypte is now being restored. Today the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA) transported...
- Original Copy Of La Description De L'egypte To Be Sold At Auction
Christie's Christie’s proudly announces the sale of the Michel Wittock Collection, Part IV, which will be held in Paris on May 11. As well as an exceptional copy of the famous Description de l’Egypte, bound by Jean-Joseph Tessier in polished...
- 'egypt Unveiled' Exhibition On View At Firestone
Princeton University "Egypt Unveiled: The Mission of Napoleon's Savants," an exhibition marking the 200th anniversary of a seminal publication of Egyptian history, will be on view from Dec. 21 through May 10 in the main gallery of Firestone Library....
- More On 'le Déscription' At The Dahesh
http://tinyurl.com/kxwja (nj.com) "The Dahesh Museum has a show devoted to 'Le Déscription', Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt, that includes many engravings and two rare complete editions. The "Déscription"...
- Digitization Of Description De L’Égypte
http://www.bibalex.org/isis/News/23052005.htm Thanks to Geoffrey Tassie for the following news item. The preservation of the valuable collection of Description de l’Égypte has been completed by the International School of Information Science (ISIS)...