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  NAPOLEON'S PERSONAL COPY OF VOLNEY'S VOYAGE, FROM HIS LIBRARY IN EXILE AT ST. HELENA, WITH HIS AUTOGRAPH ANNOTATIONS THROUGHOUT and likely the copy which accompanied him during his Egyptian Campaigns

  VOLNEY, Constantin Francois. [Napoleon Bonaparte: His Copy].

  Voyage en Syrie et en Egypte, Pendant Les Annees 1783, 84, et 85. [Travel to Syria and Egypt, During the Years 1783, 84, and 85].

  A Paris: Chez Dugour et Durand, Libraires, Rue et Hotel Serpente, 1799.

  Volney's important work on Egypt and Syria, from the library in exile of Napoleon Bonaparte with his annotations and corrections throughout, several made as he was dictating details from the Egyptian Campaign for his own Memoirs. This copy may also have accompanied him during his Egyptian Campaigns; it is known that Napoleon brought along a copy of Volney's book to Egypt, and it served as the standard reference source for the members of the campaign. Octavo, two volumes bound in full contemporary French sprinkled calf with gilt tooling to the spine, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt scrolling to the front and rear panels, with 3 engraved folding maps and 5 folding plates. First published in 1787, this important travel account by the renowned French historian, orientalist, philosopher and politician Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, comte de Volney (1757-1820) is considered the best exposition of Egypt from Ottoman Syria in the late eighteenth century. It served as a basis for later Egyptian expeditions, and many scientists, as well as Bonaparte himself, took this work with them on their expeditions. His candid descriptions did not romanticize Egypt's history or its contemporary social and political conditions, but discussed the ills that plagued the country and ...

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