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Perry, Charles.
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3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- A View of the Levant: particularly of Constantinople, Syria, Egypt, and Greece. London: Printed for T. Woodward [&c.], 1743
first edition, folio (358 x 216mm.), 20 engraved plates by G. Bickham jun., 7 double-page, contemporary mottled calf gilt, spotted, binding slightly rubbed and expertly rebacked
Literature
Blackmer 1291; Hilmy II, p.108; Weber II, 523; Atabey 940
Catalogue Note
Charles Perry (1698-1780), a physician, travelled extensively between 1739 and 1742 in France, Italy and the East. He travelled up the Nile to Aswan, providing the earliest description of the Temple of Isis at Behbit el-Hagar, and the frescoes in the tombs of the Beni Hasan necropolis. Most of the plates in this work illustrate Egyptian antiquities.