First edition. Frontispiece, 2 folding engraved maps, and 15 other lithographed plates, one of which is folding. 4to. Half calf with marbled paper boards, gilt spine, boards worn and stained. Occasional browning and foxing, especially to plates, a few pencil annotations. Bookplate to upper pastedown and ffep. vi, [1, list of plates], [1 blank], 333pp. London, John Murray, 1822.
The authors were Cambridge antiquarians who travelled from Wady Halfa to Merowe in the wake of the Turco-Egyptian invasion, for which this work is a primary source.
Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 314; Abbey, Travel 289.
