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Descrizione : DISCOVERIES... IN EGYPT AND NUBIA, first edition, lithographic portrait frontispiece of Belzoni in native dress (slightly shaved at foot), one engraved plate, lacking half-title, frontispiece and title foxed, contemporary calf gilt, covers detached, Currer bookplate, [Blackmer 116; Gay 1940], 4to, John Murray, 1820; Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia, first edition, 44 plates on 34 sheets, 3 folding, 25 engravings, all but 4 coloured, 19 lithographs, John Murray, 1820; Six New Plates Illustrative of the Researches..., first edition, 6 coloured lithographic plates, 4 folding, 3 shaved at foot, [Blackmer 117; Gay 1940], John Murray, 1822; [Alexander (William) Egyptian Monuments], 19 aquatint plates, one folding, printed in various colours, 2 engraved diagrams, all by T. Medland after William Alexander, [Blackmer 18; Gay 1915], [Longman, 1805-1807]; [Hamilton (William Richard) Remarks on Several Parts of Turkey, Part I, $(SO224)gyptica], engraved map and 23 plates, 14 folding, after Charles Hayes (of 24; lacking plate 20), [Blackmer 780; Gay 2055], [T. Payne and Cadell and Davies, 1809], 4 works in one volume, contemporary half calf gilt, rubbed, Currer bookplate, folio (2) Belzoni was one of the first and greatest archaeologists of Egypt, leading several important excavations from 1815 to 1819. He opened one of the two great pyramids of Giza and several tombs of the kings at Thebes, including that of Seti I. The plate volume accompanying his narrative '`was the first English work of any importance to use lithography'' (Blackmer). Belzoni's personal collection of antiquities and Egyptian artifacts was sold at Sotheby's in 1822. Alexander was keeper of prints and drawings in the British Museum. The present copy represents all that was published of an intended work: Engravings with a descriptive account... of the Egyptian Monuments, in the British Museum, collected by the Institute in Egypt, under the direction of Bonaparte, and surrendered to the British. The principal object illustrated is the celebrated green sarcophagus identified by E.D. Clarke in 1805 as being that of Alexander the Great, an extraordinary attribution which was soon to be the subject of great controversy. Hamilton was sent to Egypt by Elgin, whom he had served as secretary in Constantinople. Together with Clarke, he attempted to prevent the removal of antiquities taken by the French (notably the Rosetta Stone). He also superintended the safe transportation to England of the Elgin marbles.
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