Egypt Deserts & Oases: All Oases of the Western Desert by Egypt Travel - 2015

Good. 7th printing, 1984/85. Excursions from Cairo section has some underlining, and the page on the pyramids was folded in half vertically. Otherwise, a generally clean, sound copy, with only light wear.

Independently published, 2020. Paperback. New. 110 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.25 inches.

London: Charles Taylor, 1819. FIRST EDITION. 515 x 350 mm. (20 1/4 x 13 3/4"). vi, 146, [2] pp. HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, covers elaborately framed in gilt and blind, raised bands, spine panels with intricate gilt medallion centerpiece, gilt lettering, heraldic crest of Lyme stamped in gilt at foot of spine, turn-ins framed in gilt and blind, (original?) leather hinges, all edges gilt (very expert joint and corner restoration). With 110 ENGRAVED PLATES of Egyptian places, people, and antiquities, one double-page, seven folding, as called for. A Large Paper Copy. Text in French and English in parallel columns. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Lyme (engraved by J. F Badeley and dated 1904) and small library shelf label. ◆Frontispiece portrait and half a dozen other plates somewhat foxed, four folding plates with expert repairs, faint offsetting from engravings, isolated marginal foxing, otherwise fine--quite clean, fresh, and bright internally, with crisp… Read More