Analyse de l'inscription en hiéroglyphes du monument trouvé à Rosette. Dresden: Walther, 1804



4to (9 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.; 235 x 207 mm). Large folding engraved plate of the hieroglyphic text of the Rosetta Stone; some short fold separations to plate, text browned and occasionally spotted. Contemporary German paste-paper boards; spine and extremities worn, joints cracked.

First edition of one of the earliest studies of the Rosetta Stone, published some eighteen years before Champollion deciphered the text. Rare.