A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN EGYPT. by GARDNER WILKINSON I - 1858.: Including descriptions of the course of the Nile to the second cataract, Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and Thebes, the overland transit to India, the peninsula of Mount Sinai, the oases, etc.

London: John Murray, 1878. 3 volumes. The new and best edition, revised and corrected. With over 645 finely accomplished plates throughout the three volumes presented in the text, as full-page cuts and with many lithographic coloured plates on separately printed pages as well as with many multi-page illustrations and folding maps and plans. Large, thick 8vo, publisher’s original dark-green cloth, beautifully decorated with gilt pictorial vignettes on the upper covers and lettered in gilt on the spines and upper covers, ruled in blind. xxx, 510; xii, 515; xi, 528 pp. A fine, handsome and very pleasing set in the original publisher’s beautifully decorated cloth bindings. The bindings are bright and fresh with no fading, internally clean and very sturdy. The plates are in excellent condition. An excellent set. AN IMPORTANT AND CORNERSTONE WORK and of the most important works on the ancient Egyptians. Wilkinson’s acute observations and use of exhaustive illustrations of the manners… Read More