Emil Brugsch (1842-1930) - Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) La Trouvaille de Deir-El-Bahari. Two volumes. Twenty photographs by M. E. Brugsch, assistant curator of the Boulaq Museum of Antiquities. Text by G. Maspero, Director General of the Museums of Egypt. Imprimerie Française F. Mourès & Cie. Cairo, 1881. In-4 (31 x 24 cm). First edition. Two unbound blue folders with printed titles, one containing 36 pages of text with descriptions of the plates, the other composed of 20 period charcoal prints, mounted on leaves. Average proof size: 20.5 x 15 cm La Trouvaille de Deir-El-Bahari. Suite des planches, n°21-30. In-4 (32.5 x 24 cm). First edition. Gray folder with printed title, consisting of a title page and ten vintage charcoal prints, mounted on leaves. Average proof size: 20.5 x 15 cm. Also included: Emil Brugsch and others Egypt, c. 1880. Mummies. Boulaq Museum Collections. Emil Brugsch in front of a group of mummies. Eight (8) albumen, citrate and charcoal prints from the period. Sizes: from 12.5 x 10 to 18 x 13 cm In 1881, Gaston Maspero had suspected for some time the existence of a royal tomb discovered by looters. His investigation led to the arrest of an antiquities dealer whose brother revealed the location of a burial vault hidden in a cliff near Deir-El-Bahari. Travelling to Europe, he entrusts Emil Brugsch with the mission of exploring it. When he entered, he was astonished by what he saw: some forty mummies, some of them those of famous kings of the New Kingdom, from the 17th to the 20th dynasties, including Seti I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose III and Ramses II. Within forty-eight hours, the bodies and most of the remaining artefacts were catalogued and photographed by Emil Brugsch, before the precious archaeological booty was shipped to Cairo.