Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt; Including the Information required for Travellers in that Country.
WILKINSON (Sir Gardner).

Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt; Including the Information required for Travellers in that Country.

First edition. 2 vols. Folding map and numerous in-text illustrations. 8vo. Original blind embossed cloth gilt, spines toned and lower hinge vol. 1 cracked. Inner hinges likewise tender. Bookplate to upper pastedown, both volumes. xx, 476; iv, 590, [ii publisher’s catalogue] pp. London, John Murray, 1843.

£375.00
WILKINSON (Sir Gardner).
Modern Egypt and Thebes: Being a Description of Egypt; Including the Information required for Travellers in that Country.

This is an enlarged version of the author’s Topography of Thebes.

Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (1797-1875), explorer and archaeologist, was an acknowledged authority on Egypt. Arriving in Alexandria from England in 1821, he spent altogether twelve years in Egypt and Nubia.

Blackmer 1805. Ibrahim-Hilmy II, 380.

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