EGYPTOLOGY. Arthur RHONÉ (1836-1910). Autograph manuscripts - Lot 162

EGYPTOLOGY. Arthur RHONÉ (1836-1910). Autograph manuscripts and notes, some signed; over 700 small in-4 leaves, mostly double-sided, arranged in 2 archival boxes. Important set of notes and manuscripts on Egypt. Arthur Rhoné made several trips to Egypt, and published various works, including L'Égypte à petites journées (1877 and 1910), and Coup d'œil sur l'état du Caire ancien et moderne (1882). These notes are collected in some fifteen titled folders; they are mostly in the form of small notebooks; they are working notes, some taken in Egypt itself, or reading notes; the most elaborate manuscripts are signed; there are a few copies by other hands, notes communicated by correspondents (Edmond Fagnan, Mariette, Henri Pereire, Alexandre Surell, etc.), a few sketches or drawings and hieroglyphs... "Égypte antique", including a copy of a letter from Mariette-Bey on Egyptian gods (1873); notes on the Boulaq Museum, the Colossi of Memphis, the "Maison égyptienne du Trocadéro" at the 1878 Exhibition; reading notes (E. de Rougé, Mariette, Champollion, Passalacqua, Deveria, Renan, Brügsch...); an "unpublished note by Th. Devéria" on Egyptian theogony, notes by M. de Chancel, administrator of the Suez isthmus (1865), a note by Mme de Rochemonteix on her husband's work (1891). - "Hebrews in Egypt", after Abbé Ancessi, Chabas... - "Aesthetics": notes taken in Cairo in 1879 "on the history of architectural art and in particular on Arab art"; notes after Winkelmann, Viollet-le-Duc, Buckle, Quatremère de Quincy, J.J. Ampère, Perreyve, Lenormant, etc., and at the exhibition of the Orientalist painter Léon Belly (1878). - Ancient Alexandria", notes from Jomard, Letronne, Lumbroso, Ampère, Matter, Ebers, Volney, Vacherot, etc.; and file on the mission entrusted by Napoleon III to Mariette-bey for his Histoire de Jules César. - "Sérapéum de Memphis", with plan, and notes after Mariette... - "Isthme de Suez", including a "Note inédite sur le canal des deux mers" by Henri Fournel (1866). - Notes sur les travaux de Maspero en Égypte" (1883). - "Bibliography", including E. Lefébure's brochure, Le Per M Hrou (1873), dedicated to Rhoné, plus 3 articles printed by Maspero. "Notes recueillies sur les conversations de Mr Ferdinand de Lesseps", at the Tunisian house of Bellevue and at the Suez Company in Paris (1875-1877); and "Notes recueillies" in Cairo in 1865: conversations with the merchant Horace Castelnuovo, with M. Tastu, consul general in Alexandria; and visit to Mariette-Bey in 1873. - "Modern history of Egypt": notes on the religious philosophy of the Egyptians according to Mariette-bey (1865), on the Suez isthmus, according to Clot-bey's Overview of Egypt, on the Egyptian expedition, according to Lesur and the Gotha almanac, "sur les derniers événements de Nubie, 1871-76", on the Museum of Boulaq (1882), on the underground temple of Gizeh, on Memphis according to Mariette's manuscript (1850-1851), translation of Arabic by Yakoub-Artin-Bey etc. - "Arab Cairo": Arab monuments of Cairo (Comité de conservation des monuments historiques du Caire, and copies of correspondence: Ambroise Baudry, Gabriel Charmes, Rogers-Bey, William Gregory, 1882-1883), notes on mosques, on Maxime du Camp's photographs, on "les derviches ou soufis et leur doctrine", on Kaire (1876-1881), lists of photographs and drawings by Jules Bourgoin (1882-1885), etc. - "Notes taken from conversations" (1863-1879): Linant-pacha, Jacques de Rougé, Consul Tastu, Mariette; and Mariette's obituary. - "Modern travels": notes from Champollion, Hamout, Linant de Bellefonds, Lefebvre, Caillaud, Vivant Denon, etc. - A folder of "Projects, programs, sketches, epigraphs"... Etc.