Narrative of a Journey in Egypt and the Country beyond the Cataracts.

LEGH (Thomas).

Narrative of a Journey in Egypt and the Country beyond the Cataracts.

First American edition. Folding frontispiece map (with sellotape repairs) and one folding plate. 8vo. Later green cloth. Text very browned and foxed, a few pages with small sellotape repairs. Portrait of the author mounted to upper pastedown, pencil notes to upper endpapers, two library stamps to first few pages. xii, [13]-203, 4 [publisher’s catalogue] pp. Philadelphia, M. Thomas, 1817.

£150.00

LEGH (Thomas).

Narrative of a Journey in Egypt and the Country beyond the Cataracts.

Legh travelled up the Nile in the winter of 1812/13 with the Rev. Charles Smelt, whose journal he uses in the narrative. “They explored the country above Aswan, penetrating into Nubia, whose temples they were among the first to examine…” (Navari).

Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 364; [cf. Blackmer, 999] (All citing the London edition, published by John Murray in 1816; a second edition, with plates, published the following year).

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