8vo. Volume I: xv, 429 pp., 4 colour plates / Volume II: 442 pp., 4 colour plates / Volume III: 431 pp., 4 colour plates, 2 b/w plates / Volume IV: 416 pp., 1 b/w plates, vocabulary tables, half-titles / Atlas: Folio. Volume I: [32 pp (2 folding) listing plates with description], 75 numbered plates, of which 16 engravings and 59 lithographs, Plate XX bears an autograph signed by Cailliaud stating: "Je certifie que cette planche est la même dans tout l'ouvrage" / Volume II: [15 pp listing plates with description], 75 plates, of which 55 lithographed, (plates 54-55 duplicated), modern half-calf with marbled boards in style of the period by Ateliers Laurenchet, half titles, title gilt on spine, plates on vellum, new endpapers, scattered foxing, few restored tears, damp stain to lower corner of few pages of Atlas, Imprimerie Royale, Paris, first edition, 1823-1827.

Synopsis

This account of Cailliaud’s second sojourn in Egypt, 1819-1822, is particularly valuable for its description of contemporary Egypt and of Cailliaud’s contacts with Mehmet Ali. He joined Isma’il Pasha’s military expedition to Nubia, where he explored the ruins of the ancient city of Meroe, after already having explored the Western Oasis, and the Oasis of Siouwah and Jupitor Ammon with Mehmet Ali’s expeditionary force. The work was edited by Cailliaud and Jomard together. The plates in the text volumes are mostly of costumes; the lithographed views are relatively early. The Atlas contains 150 beautiful plates of maps, plans, views, costumes, inscriptions, botanical and wildlife figures.
Jomard also produced two minor works connected with Cailliaud: Notice sur le second voyage de M.F. Cailliaud, 1823, and Voyage a l’Oasis de Syouah, redige et publie d’apres les materiaux recueillis par le Chev. Drovetti et par Cailliaud pendant leurs voyages dans cette Oasis en 1819 et 1820, Paris, 1823.
There is a wealth of information as well as vocabulary tables “of the language of Syouah”, “the language of Qamâmyl Negroes in Bertât” and “language spoken at Dongolah”, lists of oasis villages in low Egypt and northern Sudan, transcriptions of Greek epigraphs found at Thebes, meteorological observations.
Bibliographic references: Blackmer 270; Gay 2572; Chadenat 2066; Hilmy I, 113; Carre I, 221-4; Adhemar 73; Not in Abbey.