Découvertes Gallimard

Découvertes Gallimard (French: [dekuvɛʁt ɡalimaːʁ], lit. ''Gallimard Discoveries''; in United Kingdom: New Horizons, in United States: Abrams Discoveries) is an illustrated encyclopaedic collection of pocket-sized books created by the French publisher Éditions Gallimard, made in the style of livre d'art ('art book'). The first volume À la recherche de l'Égypte oubliée (English-language edition: The Search for Ancient Egypt^[3]) was published on 21 November 1986, which is written by the French Egyptologist Jean Vercoutter.^[4]

Découvertes Gallimard

Images used on Découvertes Gallimard book covers.
Translator	Ruth Sharman, Paul G. Bahn, et al.
Illustrator	Dominique Thibault, Jean-Olivier Héron [fr], for pré-générique only (first 2 volumes), et al.
Cover artist	David Roberts, Roland Cat, et al.
Country	France
Language	French
Genre	Encyclopaedia, humanities
Publisher	FR: Éditions Gallimard UK: Thames & Hudson US: Harry N. Abrams
Published	1986–present
Published in English	UK & US: 1992–2008[1][2]
Media type	Print (Paperback, hardcover) & Digital edition for iPad
No. of books	700⁺ (including spin-offs) 107 (UK edition) 111 (US edition)

Overview

The birth of this collection was based on an idea by Pierre Marchand, then directed by Élisabeth de Farcy.^[5] There are 588 volumes plus more than 150 books of spin-offs in this collection, each book focuses on a particular topic, such as history and archaeology, culture and society, art and aesthetics, science and technology, a biography of a famous person, or memories of places, etc.^[6] The whole collection covers almost everything of human knowledge. The A6 paper size (125 × 178 mm) is used for these pocket books and printed on thick and glossy coated paper, with a lot of full colour illustrations extracted from heritage resources to decorate the informational texts. Each book has a “Documents” section, more detailed documentary information and historical records are provided here, as well as the sources of all illustrations for those who want to learn further.

The Découvertes collection has been translated into more than 20 languages and sold over 20 million copies worldwide as of 1999.^[7] The English edition of Découvertes Gallimard is published by Harry N. Abrams in United States under the title Abrams Discoveries series,^[8][9] and in United Kingdom it is published by Thames & Hudson called New Horizons series.^[10]

List of English-translated volumes

See the main article: List of English-translated volumes of Découvertes Gallimard

Gallery

Book spines

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  “Découvertes Gallimard” new edition
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  “Découvertes Gallimard” old edition
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  “Abrams Discoveries”
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  “New Horizons”
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  “New Horizons”

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References

1. "Henri Cartier-Bresson - Further Details". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
2. "DISCOVERIES: HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON". abramsbooks.com. Archived from the original on 9 October 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2017.
3. "The Search for Ancient Egypt (Abrams Books edition)". goodreads.com. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
4. "À la recherche de l'Égypte oubliée, collection Découvertes Gallimard (nº 1)". gallimard.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 May 2017.
5. "Collection Découvertes Gallimard". gallimard.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 May 2017.
6. "Collection Découvertes Gallimard". gallimard.fr (in French). Retrieved 5 May 2017.
7. Françoise Hache-Bissette (2002). "Découvertes Gallimard ou la culture encyclopédique à la française". ricochet-jeunes.org (in French). Retrieved 20 September 2017.
8. "Search Results: Discoveries". abramsbooks.com. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
9. "An incomplete list of Abrams Discoveries series". goodreads.com. Retrieved 18 November 2018.
10. "New Horizons series". thamesandhudson.com. Retrieved 19 June 2017.

Other websites

• Official website (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Arts series at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Archéologie series at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Histoire series at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Littératures series at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Religions series at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Culture et société series at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Sciences et techniques series at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Texto at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Albums at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Une autre histoire du XX^e siècle at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Hors série at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• Découvertes Gallimard Carnet d'expo at Éditions Gallimard (in French)
• List of "Abrams Discoveries" series at Goodreads
• List of 'New Horizons' series at Publishing History