Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798.

BROWNE (W.G.).

Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798.

Second edition, enlarged. With an engraved frontispiece, 3 folding maps/ plans and one full page plan. 4to. Contemporary full tree calf, rebacked retaining the original spine, the boards with margins ruled in gilt. Internally browned, one map with short tear along fold. Bookplate to upper pastedown, former owner’s signature to title page. [2], xxxv, 632pp. London, T. Cadell and W. Davies; and Longman Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1806.

£750.00

BROWNE (W.G.).

Travels in Africa, Egypt, and Syria, from the Year 1792 to 1798.

An important, and much underrated and under-appreciated work. Apart from providing one of first substantial descriptions of the Sultanate of Darfur, Browne also described for the first time in a western text the practice of female genital mutilation (pp. 394-400) in the “Medical Remarks” section.

Written on a preliminary leaf are extracts from contemporary reviews, in the hand of a previous owner.

Blackmer 219 [citing the 1799 first edition]; Ibrahim-Hilmy I, p. 91.

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