Egypt

Denon's Travels in upper and lower Egypt (3 vol., 1803), a folio volume of plates to a French edition of Denon (no date, waterstained), Belzoni's Narrative of the operations and recent discoveries... in Egypt and Nubia (1820, lacking upper cover), Montulé's Travels in Egypt (1821), Wilson's Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land (1824), Lane's Manners and customs of the modern Egyptians (2 volumes, 1842), Wilkinson's Modern Egypt and Thebes (2 volumes, 1843), Yates's Modern history and condition of Egypt (2 volumes, 1843), Russell's Diary in the East (1869), Lane-Poole's Cairo (1898), Blunt's Secret history of the English occupation of Egypt (1907), Metz and Legrain's Aux pays de Napoléon l'Egypte (1913), d'Ivray's Promenades a travers le Caire (1928), Catalogue of the collection of H.H. the late Prince Ibrahim Hilmy (1936), various bindings, worn; and 34 others; the lot sold not subject to return (52)

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