Egypt.- Rosellini (Ippolito) I Monumenti dell'Egitto e della Nubia, 3 vol. in 5, plate vol. only, first edition, half-titles, 394 engraved plates, linen-backed, of which c.140 with full or partial hand-colouring, vol. 2 letterpress title loose, one or two marginal chips, marginal water-staining to vol. 3, some foxing and surface soiling, some light browning, ex-library copies with bookplate, small ink-stamp to titles or first plate, 19th century red half morocco, with flap to cover top-edge, library stickers to foot of spines, extremities quite worn, large folio, Pisa, Niccolò Capurro, 1832-44.

⁂ The 3 plate volumes only, without the 9 accompanying text volumes. Rosellini had a great influence on Egyptology in Italy. These volumes, which are his most renowned work, were based upon his 1828 expedition to Egypt, with his mentor and friend Jean Francois Champollion. The work is divided into three parts: monumenti storici, monumenti civili and monumenti del culto.