Discovery at Rosetta by Downs, Jonathan

Hardback. Very Good.

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Constable, London, 2008. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. 600 g.; (6), VII-XXV, (1), 262 pages, acknowledgements, list of illustrations, list of maps, four appendices, notes, bibliography and index. At the beginning of the text are five pages of maps. Between pages 134 and 135 are eight pages of black-and-white contemporary illustrations and one black-and-white photograph. Blue coloured boards with silver titles to the backstrip. Minor rubbing to the book corners. Colour illustrated dustwrapper with white and blue titles to the front panel and backstrip. " The gripping story of the Rosetta Stone, from discovery to decipherment." -- From the front fold over panel blurb. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic and Illustrations. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Language; ISBN: 9781845295790.… Read More

Constable. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 184529579X . 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages .

Constable, 29/05/2008 00:00:01. hardcover. Good. 3.5973 in x 21.7834 in x 14.1892 in. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. With Dust Cover.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Constable, 2008. New book, 262 pages. In 1798, General Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for Egypt at the head of an invasion fleet over twice the size of the Spanish Armada. With him went 167 'savants', a corps of hand-picked scientists, artists, naturalists, geographers and engineers, the aim being not only military conquest but also to rediscover the lost civilisation of the Nile. In the following year, French army engineers working in the town of Rosetta made a startling find: a dark polished stone bearing three inscriptions, in Greek, demotic, and ancient heiroglyphs. This book charts the fate of the Stone, from the Institut d'Egypte in Cairo to the ruine of Alexandria, where Napoleons forces were besieged by the British. For the first time the extraordinary story of the battle for the Stone and how it finally arrived in England is told in full: how the despised General Menou concealed it amid a treasure trove of Egyptian antiquities in the back streets of the city; and how a Cambridge… Read More

Constable, 2008. New book, 262 pages. In 1798, General Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for Egypt at the head of an invasion fleet over twice the size of the Spanish Armada. With him went 167 'savants', a corps of hand-picked scientists, artists, naturalists, geographers and engineers, the aim being not only military conquest but also to rediscover the lost civilisation of the Nile. In the following year, French army engineers working in the town of Rosetta made a startling find: a dark polished stone bearing three inscriptions, in Greek, demotic, and ancient heiroglyphs. This book charts the fate of the Stone, from the Institut d'Egypte in Cairo to the ruine of Alexandria, where Napoleons forces were besieged by the British. For the first time the extraordinary story of the battle for the Stone and how it finally arrived in England is told in full: how the despised General Menou concealed it amid a treasure trove of Egyptian antiquities in the back streets of the city; and how a Cambridge… Read More