Egypt

Wilkinson's Manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians (3 vol., 1837), Thompson's Photographic views of Egypt, past and present (c.1854, [not a photographically illustrated work]), Champollion le jeune's Lettres écrites d'Egypte et de Nubie en 1828 et 1829 (1868), Perrot and Chipiez's History of art in ancient Egypt (2 vol., 1883), Ebers's Egypt: descriptive, historical and picturesque (2 vol., 1884), Spiers's Egypt. A series of thirty-six views of ancient and modern Egypt (1887, presentation copy), Lallemand's Le Caire, avec une preface de Pierre Loti (1894), Curtis's Nile notes of a "Howadji;" or, the American in Egypt (no date), Chélu Bey's Le Nil et son basin (1910), Tyndale's An artist in Egypt (1912), Thackeray's The light side of Egypt (1912), cloth and leather bindings, some worn; and 20 others; the lot sold not subject to return (35)

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