Letters from Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Peninsula of Sinai
Richard LepsiusLondon: Henry G. Bohn, 1853.
First Edition.
18.5cm x 11.5cm. 578 pages, 24 advertisements, frontispiece, 2 folding maps. Original blindstamped cloth, rebacked.
With extracts from the Chronology of the Egyptians, with reference to the exodus of the Israelites. Account of the 1842-45 expedition of Prussian Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius. Translated by Leonora and Joanna B. Horner.
Rebacked preserving some of the original spine, the title re-lettered. Pencil annotations to verso of front free endpaper. Minor foxing. Good Condition.
Jenkins is exhibiting at the Sydney Rare Book Fair.
Online orders can still be placed and will ship from November 3.
AU$200.00
1 in stock
SKU: 0036437
Categories: Africa, Countries, Egypt, Ethiopia, Travel & Places