Aq.2.1.05
Antiquités de la Nubie, ou, Monumens inédits des bords du Nil, situés entre la première et la seconde cataracte, dessinés et mesurés en 1819 / par F. C. Gau, architecte.
Stuttgart : Paris : J.G. Cotta ; F. Didot, 1822-[27]
viii, 20, [2] p., 13 leaves, [2] p., 64 leaves of plates, 29 p., xiv leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), plans ; 71 cm
Thirteen numb. leaves of descriptive text, and one unnumb. page, interspersed with first set of plates
"Ouvrage faisant suite au grand ouvrage de la Commission d'Égypte; dédié au roi."
Also available on the World Wide Web.
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, recording donation by Major W. J. Myers, April 1898.
Contemporary quarter light brown morocco; dark green marbled paper covering boards; gold tooled single fillet and decorative roll on boards, gold tooled title on spine.
Temples Nubia
Temples Egypt
Inscriptions Nubia
Nubia Antiquities
Egypt Antiquities
Cotta, Johann Georg, 1796 - 1863 Freiherr von, publisher.
Didot, Firmin, 1764 - 1836 publisher.
Myers, William Joseph, 1858 - 1899 former owner.
Germany Stuttgart
France Paris
Full text of plates available at http://snipurl.com/1bok7
B29300