EGYPTOLOGY. Jean-Jacques CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC (1778-1867). 2 L - Lot 161

EGYPTOLOGY. Jean-Jacques CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC (1778-1867). 2 L.A.S., 1826-1842; 1page in-4 and 1page in-8. October 7, 1826, to Vicomte de La Rochefoucauld. Informs him of "the happy arrival of the Egyptian Collection in Paris. It will be stationed on the Quai d'Orsay, where it has stopped, until Monday morning". He will faithfully carry out the Vicomte's orders... January 15, 1842, [to Firmin Didot frères]. Concerning his brother's Grammaire égyptienne and Dictionnaire égyptien [published posthumously by order of Guizot]. He asks to remit "the amount of the bundle consisting of 35 livr. at 10f the grammar 60f the 1st part of the Dre 10f total 420f. The rest will be supplied under the same conditions. I'm delighted that my contribution has been of use to you. Here is my Petit Résumé de chronologie where the Egyptian question is up to date, except for the part on the pyramids contemporary with the 4th Dynasty"...