SINCERELY FROM ALL OF US AT MERETSEGER BOOKS
FRANCOIS OLIVIER
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Over a thousand rare books come and go at Meretseger Books every year and, since we love them, we take A LOT of photos. Sometimes they even become full e-books - we call them
Digitized Treasures - and you can read them free of charge at our website. For this Christmas, we present you with some very special gifts:
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Above: The Panckoucke edition of the Description de l'Egypte (1820-1829)
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The complete plates of the Description de l'Egypte
Over 2000 photos of these stunning plates
Vivant Denon's Voyage dans la Haute et la Basse Egypte
Text and plates (complete)
After giving up on the planned invasion of the British Isles in 1797, Bonaparte wrote to Bourienne : "If the success of an invasion of England looks doubtful, as I fear it, the Army of England will become the Army of the Orient, and I go to Egypt". The Institut National de France was founded in 1795 with the aim of "collecting... the discoveries, improve arts and sciences".
An expedition to Egypt was proposed by Talleyrand and despite the resistance of the Directoire, the expedition of the Orient was finally constituted on April 12th, 1798. Napoleon left with 280 ships, 54,000 men and the best generals, not only his companions of the Italian campaign: Berthier, Murat, Lannes, Davout, Marmont, Duroc, but also Kléber and Desaix. Bonaparte had a true interest in the sciences: he had been elected a member of the Institut National in the section for physical sciences and mathematics. Monge, Berthollet, Fourier, Geoffroy-Saint-Hilaire... altogether 150 scholars joined enthusiastically the Commission des Sciences et Arts de l’Armée d’Orient.
In this commission, all branches of science were represented, thus a large amount of scientific and artistic equipment was put on board of the ships in Toulon: laboratory of physics, aerostation equipment, chemistry cabinet, surgical instruments, as well as a printing press. While the military expedition was a disaster, the results of the scientific and artistic work were a resounding success: they gave birth to the Description de l’Égypte. Published over more than 20 years mostly by the scholars and artists who had taken part in the Expédition, the Description de l'Egypte became the largest and most beautiful publication of the 19th century.
Vivant Denon was a member of the Expédition, but he decided to publish his own text and drawings in 1802, as he foresaw that the publishing of the Description would be a very long project (indeed, the last volume was published in 1829).
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Christmas is all about the heart, but which one: h3tj or ib?
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The small monograph by Piankoff, Le Coeur dans les textes égyptiens, 1930, has long been out of print and is very much sought after. We also present it as a full e-book:
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Tip: to view any Digitized Treasure, look for this icon and click on it:
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Albenda, The palace of Sargon, King of Assyria (1986)
Anthes, Die Felseninschriften von Hatnub (reprint 1964)
Bell (in honorem), Ancient Egypt, the Aegean, and the Near East (1997)
Bezold, The Tell el-Amarna tablets in the British Museum (1892)
Birch, Description of the papyrus of Nas-khem, priest of Amen-ra (1863)
Borchardt, Excavations at Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, in 1913-1914 (1915)
Brugsch, Thesaurus Inscr. Aegyptiacarum (6 parts, complete, reprint 1968)
Budge, Coptic biblical texts in the dialect of Upper Egypt. Vol. 1. (1912)
Forshall, Description of the Greek papyri in the BM. Part I, all published (1839)
Goedicke, Old hieratic paleography (1986)
Goyon, Nouvelles inscriptions rupestres du Ouadi Hammamat (1957)
Graindor, Bustes et Statues-Portraits d'Egypte Romaine (1934)
Grossmann, Christliche Architektur in Ägypten (2002)
Gunn, Studies in Egyptian Syntax (1924)
Helck, Untersuchungen zu den Beamtentiteln des ägypt. alten Reiches (1954)
Helck, Untersuchungen zu Manetho und den ägyptischen Königslisten (1956)
Khater, Le régime juridique des fouilles et des antiquités en Egypte (1960)
Kitchen, Ramesside Studies in Honour of K. A. Kitchen (2011)
Langdon, Sumerian epic of paradise. The flood and the fall of man. (1915)
Lassus, Sanctuaires chrétiens de Syrie (1947)
Lehner, The Pyramid Tomb of Hetep-heres and the Satellite Pyramid of Khufu
(1985)
Loud, Khorsabad. Part II: The Citadel and the Town (1938)
Martin, Umm El-qaab VII: Private Stelae of the Early Dynastic Period from the
Royal Cemetery at Abydos (2011)
Maspero, MMAF I, incl. Les momies royales de Deir el-Bahari (1889)
Matouk, Corpus du scarabée égyptien. Tomes I & II, complete (1971)
Mau, Geschichte der decorativen Wandmalerei in Pompeji. Textband und
Tafelband, complete (1882)
Nagel, La céramique du Nouvel Empire à Deir el-Medineh (1938)
Ricke, The Beit el-Wali temple of Ramesses II (1967)
Ricke-Schott, Das Kamutef-Heiligtum Hatschepsuts und Thutmoses' III in
Karnak (1954)
Ricke-Schott, Der Harmachistempel des Chefren in Giseh, with: Ägyptische
Quellen zum Plan des Sphinxtempels (1970)
Sarre, Erzeugnisse Islamischer Kunst. Sammlung F. Sarre. 2 Bände. (1906-9)
Shoukry, Die Privatgrabstatue im Alten Reich (1951)
Teeter, The Presentation of Maat: Ritual and Legitimacy in Anc. Egypt (1997)
Till, Koptische Heiligen- und Martyrerlegenden (1935-6)
Ucko, Anthropomorphic figurines of predynastic Egypt and neolithic Crete with
comp. material from the prehistoric Near East & mainland Greece (1968)
Valbelle, La tombe de Hay (N° 267) à Deir el-Medineh (1975)
Valbelle, Ouchebtis de Deir el-Medineh (1972)
Vidman, Isis und Sarapis bei den Griechen und Römern (1970)
Volten, Demotische Traumdeutung (Pap. Carlsberg XIII und XIV verso) (1942)
Volten, Kopenhagener Texte zum Demotischen Weisheitsbuch (Pap. Carlsberg
II, III verso, IV verso und V) (1940)
Winter (in honorem), Aspekte spätägyptischer Kultur. Festschrift für Erich
Winter zum 65. Geburtstag. (1994)
Ziegler, Catalogue des stèles, peintures et reliefs égyptiens de l'Ancien Empire
et de la Première période intermédiaire, Musée du Louvre (1990)
and many more...
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Here is our top 10 selection of the wonders we saw in our books in 2019:
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#2: Professional female mourners in TT78 (Haremheb)
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#3: Belzoni: Foreigners in KV17 (Sethi I)
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#4: Head of the mummy of Sethi I
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#5: Frontispiece from the Description de l'Egypte (2nd, Panckoucke edition)
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#6: Bonaparte at a session of the Institut d'Egypte in Cairo (house of Hasan Kâchef)
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#7: Drawing water with a shaduf
Nina de Garis Davies' painting, Tomb of Puyemre (TT39)
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#8: House of L. Caecilius Jucundus at Pompei
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#9: Portrait of Sir Peter Le Page Renouf
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#10: And finally, a special thank-you to Bastet whose cute looks helped a copy of Petrie's Dendereh find a new home :-)
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