This is the rating and price for 2V Benoit De Maillet / Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier Description De L'Egypte 1740 Antique French Egyptology Antiquity History Fold-Out Plates Map, 1740

Description : Title: Description de l'Egypte contenant plusiers remarques curieuses sur la geographie ancienne et moderne de ce pais, sur ses monumens anciens, sur les moeurs, les coutumes & la religion des habitans, sur le gouvernement & le commerce, sur les animaux, les arbres, les plantes, &c. Compose sur les memoires de Monsieur De Maillet, ancien consul de France au Caire Author: Benoit de Maillet - Benoit de Maillet was a well-travelled French diplomat and natural historian. He was French consul general at Cairo, and overseer in the Levant. He formulated an evolutionary hypothesis to explain the origin of the earth and its contents. De Maillet's geological observations convinced him that the earth could not have been created in an instant because the features of the crust indicate a slow development by natural processes. He also believed that creatures on the land were ultimately derived from creatures living in the seas. He believed in the natural origin of man. He estimated that the development of the earth took two billion years. (Information courtesy of Wikipedia), Jean Baptiste Le Mascrier Publisher: Chez Isaac Beauregard City: The Hague Year: 1740 Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes Width: 4.5 Height: 7 Book Details: Condition / Notes: This antique full-leather set has detached front boards and shows cracking to the rear spine edges. The covers display rubbing and minor loss at the corners. The text blocks are intact. These are ex-library volumes and have bookplates to the front pastedowns and library stamps on the front flyleaves and title pages. A previous owner's markings can be seen at the top of the front flyleaf. The pages exhibit occasional light foxing. This work contains numerous fold-out plates, including a fold-out map of Egypt at the front of the first volume. This map has a closed tear on the right side measuring approximately 3.5. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $4.50
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