Shefik [Shafik], Ahmed

FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, LIMITED EDITION, one of 210 copies, 4to (268 x 185mm.), photographic portrait-frontispiece of Fouad I King of Egypt, and 123 photographic illustrations on 85 plates, original green cloth-backed beige boards, upper board with printed title, some endpapers detached, hinges loose, slight wear to spine, rubbed

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A rare account of an official expedition in the Sinai peninsula, issued by the Egyptian Ministry of War and Marine, department of Frontiers Administration, of which the author was the director-general. The purposes of the tour, which took place from the 11th to 23rd January 1926, were "to examine the new motor road between Suez and Tor and between the two latter localities and Mount-Sinai Monastery," and to inspect and investigate the "maladies of animals belonging to natives of Sinai and to the F.A. Camel Corps" and "to collect specimens of Sinai insects for the Entomological Section." The party travelled in Ford motor cars and "took an ordinary photographic camera, together with cinematograph instruments," to document the tour.