Third edition. A total of 32 full page illustrations to the text. 4to. Contemporary red morocco-backed red cloth prize binding, boards ruled in blind, spine with raised bands and gilt decorated compartments, a.e.g., silk pastedowns and free endpapers. Spine fairly worn at head and tail, upper quarter of front board lightly sunned, uniform light browning of paper stock, occasional foxed spots, upper inner hinge cracked. Bookplate to upper pastedown, gift inscription in ink on ffep. 397pp. Tours, Alfred Mame et Fils, 1876.
For details about the author, a French poet, see J.-M. Carré, Voyageurs et écrivains français en Égypte, Cairo, 1932, especially pp. 243-245.
