Four works on Egyptian antiquities
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Title: Four works on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, artifacts and excavations
Place Published: Paris & London
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Date Published: Various dates
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Author:
Title: Four works on ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, artifacts and excavations
Place Published: Paris & London
Publisher:
Date Published: Various dates
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Four volumes.
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- Champollion-Figeac, Jacques Joseph. égypte Ancienne. [2], 500 pp. With 92 engraved plates; folding map. 21x12.5 cm (8¼x5"), period diced calf with gilt-roll border, rebacked in calf, marbled endpapers & edges (some white residue to covers, some light foxing within, a few inkstamps of King's Inns Library Dublin). Paris Didot Fréres, 1843.
- Champollion, Jean-François. Lettre à M. Dacier... relative à l'alphabet des hiéroglyphiqes phonétiques employés par les égyptiens pour inscrire sur leurs monuments les titres, les noms et les surnoms des souverains grecs et romains. [4], 84; [4], 52 pp. With 4 folding plates of hieroglyphs. 22.7x15.3 cm (9x6"), disbound. Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1922.
- Seventh Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund: The Mound of the Jew and the City of Onias... by Edouard Naville [&] The Antiquities of Tell el Yahûd?yeh... by F.L. Griffith. 32x25.5 cm, cloth-backed boards (crack at top of front board). London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1890.
- A Guide to the Egyptian Collections in the British Museum. 22.5x14 cm, thin printed boards (darkened). London: British Museum Trustees, 1909.
The second listed volume is a reprint on the hundredth anniversary of its first publication of J.F. Champollion's first account of his method for assigning phonetic values of Egyptian hieroglyphs, based on a study of the Rosetta Stone. The first part of the work is a lengthy preface by Henry Sottas, the second a facsimile printing of the original 1822 publication, including the four plates. Champollion-Figeac was J.F. Champollion's older brother.
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