Narrative of a Journey in Egypt

LEGH (Thomas)

Narrative of a Journey in Egypt

WITH THE PLATES NOT ISSUED WITH THE FIRST EDITION

and the Country beyond the Cataracts.Second edition. Extending map & 11 plates. 8vo. Contemporary half calf, plain boards, rubbed, worn at corners. Professionally rebacked in calf, with black leather title label. ix, 296pp. Plus binder’s directions and 4pp.ads. London, John Murray, 1817.

£750.00

The eleven plates found in this the second edition were not included in the first which was published in 1816. They were also issued separately to allow for purchasers of the first to insert them into their copies.

“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 thy were among the first to examine…” (Navari). Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p364; cf. Blackmer, 999.

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