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Egypt and Nubia; their scenery and their people. Being incidents of history and travel, from the best and the most recent authorities, including J.L.Burckhardt and Lord Lindsay by St. John, J.A. [James Augustus, 1795 - 1874] - 1845

by St. John, J.A. [James Augustus, 1795 - 1874]

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Egypt and Nubia; their scenery and their people. Being incidents of history and travel, from the best and the most recent authorities, including J.L.Burckhardt and Lord Lindsay by St. John, J.A. [James Augustus, 1795 - 1874] - 1845

Egypt and Nubia; their scenery and their people. Being incidents of history and travel, from the best and the most recent authorities, including J.L.Burckhardt and Lord Lindsay

by St. John, J.A. [James Augustus, 1795 - 1874]

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London: Chapman and Hall, 1845. First Edition, First Printing. A Very Good Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket Issued.

Half calf and marbled boards, modern leather spine label. Marbles textblock and endpages. Bindings tight and square. Moderate handling wear. Text clean, no ownership markings, light even toning. 8vo; (iii)-viii, 472 pages. 8.5 by 5.25 inches.  First Edition. Woodcut illustrations.. Reports about life under the Ottoman Turks and descriptions of regional monuments, Pyramids, etc. This is a curious mixture of information from St. John's own travels in 1832-3 with details from many other writers on Egypt, e.g. Alpinus, Light, Wilde, Burckhardt, Belzoni.


A shortened and "more literary" description of the author's Egypt and Mohammed Ali


REF: OCLC: 25950873. Bold: 013781126; Hilmy: 204ff [vii]
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  • Date Published 1845
  • Keywords Asia Minor, Turkey, Ancient History, Egyptology, Islam

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Six Months Among the Palm Groves, Coral Reefs, and the Volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands

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The Taurus Collection: 150 Collectable Books on the Antarctic

by Mackenzie, Julian

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Fine. London: Travellers' Bookshop, 2001. Edition limited to 500 copies, 4to., [x], 197pp., approx. 160 colour illustrations, publisherÕs black cloth with gilt spine titles, dust-wrapper. A Fine copy in Fine dustjacket - As New and signed by Julian Mackenzie on the main title page.A pictorial bibliography of one of the finest collections of Antarctica in private hands. The collection is limited to first-hand accounts, and was assembled with a view to condition. It contains many outstanding copies, some with rare dust-wrappers. The Taurus Collection was formed with two objectives in mind: First was to obtain the finest possible copies of books on the Antarctic; second was to focus on the people and expeditions who went to the Continent when heroism was most important, ie: before the age of mechanization. - from the introduction.The Taurus Collection publication should prove to be a valuable resource for both written and visual documentation for key books important to documentation of exploration of… Read More
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Egypt and Nubia

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London: CHAPMAN & HALL LTD, 1845. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1845. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Rebound in modern half leather with the original marbled boards. Gilt titling, five raised bands and date to spine. Name/Writing on front pastedown and on e/p. Cut with loss to the top of the front free e/p, probably former owners name? cut off. Illustrated. Title page has vignette of Eileithyias. Light Foxing/marks to prelims. 472 pp. With 125 wood engravings in text. " (The record of) a journey made in 1832, mostly on foot, the account of which was first published in two volumes in 1834 under the title of 'Egypt and Mohammed Ali.' Accounts of late 18th/early 19th Century Egyptian life under the Ottoman Turks, Ancient momuments, The Pyramids, Social life and customs, etc, gathered from numerous sources. Loose Silk ribbon bookmark. Internally Overall very clean, tight, and bright. ; 61133; 8vo .
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the...
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The Journal and Letters of Captain Charles Bishop on the North-west Coast of America, in the Pacific and in New South Wal

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The Silence Of The North

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London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1823. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. pp: [viii]ix-xii [1]2-544. FIRST EDITION. Bound in brown half-leather over marbled boards, title in gilt within a red title piece. The first edition of the author's first book. William Wilson (1772-1849) inherited a substantial sum from an uncle, and decided to indulge his passion for travel. He travelled throughout Europe and The Middle East and wrote a series of books. This was his first, and it was the most popular, going through several editions. This is a good copy as all plates, including the frontispiece, have been excised. The boards show moderate wear, heavier at the spine ends. The front hinge is cracked. The text block is mainly clean with a few marks of unknown origin.
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London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1904. First English edition thus. Octavo, pp xii, 310, illustrated (including two chromolithographs by Keulemans), a rather poor copy, lacking the folding map, an ex-Boots library copy in red library cloth, a bit used and weak internally with cracked hinges (through front and rear hinges tight and strong), some plates a little frayed, a small stamp on the front endpaper and a library label on the rear, the cloth rather worn, marked on the upper cover, the spine torn. A useful working copy. [Andre was an explorer and collector of natural history specimens . He wrote a glossary of common and scientific names of plants and animals and put together a collection of 1800 bird skins which are held at Tring. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Zoological Society. He travelled largely in Venezuala and Columbia and introduced the Anthurium plant to Trinidad & Tobago, 1915.]. Signed by Author. First English edition. Cloth. Fair.
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Panama: And The Canal In Pictures and Prose

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