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EGYPT -- Charles Leonard IRBY (1789-1845) & James MANGLES (1786-1867). Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor; during the years 1817 & 1818 ... Printed for Private Distribution, London: T. White and Co., 1823. 8° (214 x 132mm). Folding engraved frontispiece map, 3 plans, 2 folding, 6 lithographed plates (frontispiece map laid down on modern linen, some light spotting and browning). Modern half calf, spine with raised bands and brown morocco lettering-piece gilt (new endpapers). PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed, "Revd. Mr. Douglas Veitch from the Author." Provenance: The Holy Child School, Preston (stamp on verso of title, but showing through on recto). Atabey 606; Gay 65; Hilmy I, 325; Weber I, 123.
With 5 other works on Egypt in 7 volumes including W. H. Bartlett's The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt ... Second Edition (London, 1850), Samuel White Baker's The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile (London, 1866, 2 vols.), W. G. Armstrong's A Visit to Egypt in 1872 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1874, PRESENTATION COPY, contemporary blue calf, rebacked) and The Earl of Cromer's Modern Egypt (London, 1908, 2 vols.), all in original cloth except where indicated. (8)
With 5 other works on Egypt in 7 volumes including W. H. Bartlett's The Nile Boat; or, Glimpses of the Land of Egypt ... Second Edition (London, 1850), Samuel White Baker's The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile (London, 1866, 2 vols.), W. G. Armstrong's A Visit to Egypt in 1872 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1874, PRESENTATION COPY, contemporary blue calf, rebacked) and The Earl of Cromer's Modern Egypt (London, 1908, 2 vols.), all in original cloth except where indicated. (8)
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