Un Hiver en Egypte
Tours: Imprimeurs-Libraires, 1860. Binding: contemporary ¼ decorative morocco with matching embossed cloth boards. Boards with initials of M. P. within a blind embossed triple rules. Spine with 5 densely gilt compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two, all edges gilt. , Notes: “the author made this voyage in 1857. He embarked from Marseilles for Alexandria, went to Cairo, went up the Nile; he visited Thebes, and the ruines of Karnac, Memphis, and the pyramids of Sakkara and Giza” (translation from Hilmy), Size: 8vo, Illustration: Ex-libris on paste down end paper. Printer’s device on the title page, and 32 wood engraved plates. , References: Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 125, Pages: P. half-title, blank, title, blank, 1-468., Category: Book Voyages General; Book Africa Egypt. Occasional mild browning otherwise a handsome copy in an attractive decorative period binding. Item #B2279
Binding: contemporary ¼ decorative morocco with matching embossed cloth boards. Boards with initials of M. P. within a blind embossed triple rules. Spine with 5 densely gilt compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two, all edges gilt. , Notes: “the author made this voyage in 1857. He embarked from Marseilles for Alexandria, went to Cairo, went up the Nile; he visited Thebes, and the ruines of Karnac, Memphis, and the pyramids of Sakkara and Giza” (translation from Hilmy), Size: 8vo, Illustration: Ex-libris on paste down end paper. Printer’s device on the title page, and 32 wood engraved plates. , References: Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 125, Pages: P. half-title, blank, title, blank, 1-468., Category: Book Voyages General; Book Africa Egypt.
Price: $875.00