PASSALACQUA, Joseph. Catalogue raisonné et historique des antiquités découvertes en Egypte. 1826.

First edition.

Catalogue of the private collection of Joseph Passalacqua, which he assembled through private excavations in Egypt between 1822 and 1825 and exhibited in Paris at 12 Rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas. He tried to sell this collection of antiquities to France, but it was eventually bought by the King of Prussia. The ensemble formed the core of the Berlin Museum's Egyptian collections.

Presentation copy to the Duc D'Augoulème with it's gilt arms on covers.
Binding from Simier, "Relieur du Roi".