Description: Memoires de l'Institut Royal de France. Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Tome Quinzieme. Premiere Partie. Paris: Imprimerie Royale 1842. viii, 423, [1] pp., 9 plates. Contains Jean-Francois Champollion's essay, "Memoire sur les signes employes par les anciens Egyptiens a la notation des division du temps, dans leurs trois systemes d'ecriture." (pp. 73-136, 6 plates). Other contributions include Pardessus on the ancient silk trade, Daunou on Destiny, Seguier de Saint-Brisson on Miltiades, Mollevaut on the Laocoon statue, Walckenaer on the chronology of the kings of Java, Raoul-Rochette on the Belvedere Torso, Berger de Xivray on the 1612-19 rebellion of the Maniotes in Greece against the Ottomans under the sponsorship of Charles Gonazaga, Paris on the authorship of the Songe du Verger, and Natalis de Wailly on papyrus fragments giving a rare example of the cursive handwriting of the Imperial Roman Chancery (3 plates). Original wraps have chipping, fading and creasing. Spine label chipped. Spine has vertical cracking; the textblock is on its way to splitting apart, several signatures are loosening. Pages foxed, mostly unopened/uncut. Good plus.
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