{"product_id":"printed-at-napoleons-cairo-press-annuaire-de-la-republique-francaise-calcule-pour-le-meridien-du-kaire-l-an-ix-de-l-ere-francaise-1800","title":"Printed at Napoleon’s Cairo Press and with the Contemporary Ownership of an Officer of the Armée d’Orient - \"Annuaire de la République Française, Calculé pour le Méridien du Kaire, l’An IX de l’Ère Française\" - 1800","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePrinted at Napoleon’s Cairo Press and with the Contemporary Ownership of an Officer of the Armée d’Orient\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Annuaire de la République Française, Calculé pour le Méridien du Kaire, l’An IX de l’Ère Française”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Imprimerie Nationale du Kaire (Cairo), 1800.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Octavo format retaining the original publisher’s paper boards, untrimmed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Complete: [1-4],5-68, [2], 48pp. Losses to lower corners of the final three leaves with old paper repairs. Losses to the outer paper covering of the front board. Occasional pencil marks and scribbles. A good unsophisticated survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rare almanac printed at the Imprimerie Nationale du Kaire, the government printing press established by Napoleon Bonaparte during the French occupation of Egypt (1798–1801). Intended for use by soldiers, administrators and scholars, the work contains astronomical observations, calendrical information, currency conversions, postal rates and official lists relating to the administration of French Egypt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe lists of officers of the Armée d’Orient include General Jacques-François de Menou, who succeeded Kléber as commander of French forces in Egypt, René-Nicolas Dufriche Desgenettes, chief physician of the expedition, and the celebrated surgeon Dominique-Jean Larrey, later regarded as one of the founders of modern military medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of the most interesting aspects of Napoleon’s Egyptian expedition was the inclusion of more than 160 scientists, engineers, artists and scholars. To support their activities, Napoleon established a modern printing press at Cairo, which issued official proclamations, scientific works and administrative manuals such as the present volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis copy has the contemporary ownership signature of \"A Vermot. Colonel\" The likely owner of this is Claude-Antoine Simon Vermot (1759–1806), artillery officer of the Armée d’Orient. Vermot is listed on page 8 of the military almanac as “Sous-Directeur du parc”. Vermot served throughout Napoleon’s Egyptian campaign, participating in the battles of the Pyramids and Aboukir before later becoming Director of Artillery of the Grande Armée.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUncommon. Worldcat states 8 copies only in institutions with 3 in the US: Yale, Indiana, Library Congress, \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eQatar, British Library, Strasbourg, Insitut Catholique de Paris, Spanish National Library.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003cimg\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Bry Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56992856113530,"sku":null,"price":4750.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/2969\/2075\/files\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-03-37-24.jpg?v=1782006296","url":"https:\/\/debryrarebooks.com\/products\/printed-at-napoleons-cairo-press-annuaire-de-la-republique-francaise-calcule-pour-le-meridien-du-kaire-l-an-ix-de-l-ere-francaise-1800","provider":"De Bry Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}