Notes, during a visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis Boeris, Mount Sinai,

HENNIKER (Sir Frederick).

Notes, during a visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis Boeris, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem.

Second edition. Title-page vignette, 2 folding engraved panoramas of Jerusalem and Mount Sinai, engraved plate showing hieroglyphs. 8vo. Original blind decorated green cloth with gilt title to spine, worn at extremities of spine, corners bruised, some toning, especially to spine. Bookplate to upper pastedown. xii, 352pp. London, John Murray, 1824.

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HENNIKER (Sir Frederick).

Notes, during a visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis Boeris, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem.

“Henniker visited Egypt in 1820; he was the first known person to climb the Second Pyramid. The frontispiece (Jerusalem) and folding plate (Mt. Sinai) are uncoloured aquatints engraved after drawings by the author” (Navari).

Abbey (Travel), 376; Blackmer, 804; Ibrahim Hilmy I, p.298; Röhricht, 1687.

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Notes, during a visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis Boeris, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem.

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