in company with several divisions of the French Army, During the campaigns of General Bonaparte in that country… Translated by Arthur Aikin.
Second English edition (first 8vo). 3 vols. 61 folding engraved maps & plates. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, rebacked, morocco labels, occasional very light dampstaining. London, Longman, Rees and Phillips, 1803.
Denon attached himself to the Napoleonic forces during the invasion of Egypt. His resulting work, offered above, was a tremendous success, as it was among the first to show in detail the extraordinary monumental richness in the land of the Pharaohs. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 172.
