CHABAS, François - Lot 22

CHABAS, François Mélanges égyptologiques. Three bound volumes containing 30 memoirs, 14 dissertations, a glossary and numerous plates. Chalon, Dejussieu et Paris, Maisonneuve, 1870 - 1873 - 1864, 3 volumes large in-8, contemporary half-brown basane, II, 288 pp. and 13 plates out of text, some folding; VI, 322 pp. and 17 plates out of text, some folding; VIII, 344 pp. and one folding plate out of text. Important collection of essays by F. Chabas and transcription of various manuscripts from some of the author's colleagues in Egyptology. It includes a new translation of the Harris magic papyrus, first published (1860) by Caillet 2145 in a "Publication de la Société d'Histoire et d'Archéologie de Chalon-sur-Saône". He notes that "the whole work abounds in information on Egyptian ceremonial magic". Copy with an autograph letter from the author to his brother at the head of the first two volumes (partly trimmed by the contemporary binder).