In 4to. 228x185. 8 unnumbered pages. Title on first page, Text on pages 3-8. Text in French, cursive writing, brown ink. At the end 'Monsieur Marcilly de la part de M. de Rouge’. Good condition.
Interesting archaeological dissertation on ancient Egyptian goldsmithing. Some jewels contained in the Cairo and Louvre museums are described.«Les Egyptiens exploitaient eux-mêmes les mines d’or qui se trouvaient dans le desert entre le Nil et la mer Rouge … Le musee du Caire possede une collection remarquable de bijoux anciens … Le musee du Louvre possede aussi quelques beaux echantillons de l’orfevrerie egyptienne».
Viscount Jacques de Rougé, 1841-1923, was the son of Emmanuel, the famous archaeologist who assumed the chair of Egyptology after Champoillon. Also a scholar of ancient Egypt, he published his father's works and produced important studies of Egyptology, including: Monnaies des nomes de l'Egypte, 1873; Géographie ancienne de la Basse-Égypte, 1891.