Egypt Old & New: A Popular Account of the Land of the Pharaohs from the Traveller's and Economist's Point of View with many engravings, nearly 50 coloured plates & a map
by MARTIN, PERCY F
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
George Allen & Unwin 1923. SMall quarto, dark blue cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine & front board, gilt building motif to front board, frontispiece, 224pp, illus, VG (some staining to boards, some bruising to spine extrems & board corners, small nick to cloth of spine side, moderate browning to page edges, occasional foxing, light creasing to occasional page fore-edge, some wear to rear eps - possibly where a label was removed)
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- Title
- Egypt Old & New: A Popular Account of the Land of the Pharaohs from the Traveller's and Economist's Point of View with many engravings, nearly 50 coloured plates & a map
- Author
- MARTIN, PERCY F
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin 1923
- Keywords
- Egypt Egyptian history culture
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