EBERS, Georg. Aegypten in Bild und Wort, dargestellt von unseren ersten Künstlern. Stuttgart and Leipzig: Eduard Hallberger, 1879-1880. 2 volumes, 2° (376 x 291mm). Title-pages printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece portrait of Chediw Ismail, metalcut head- and tailpieces and initials, numerous engraved plates and illustrations of views, scenes, costume, architecture, portraits, and natural history, and two maps printed in colour. (Short marginal tears to upper margin of first quire of vol. 2 [half-title and title-page]). Original publisher's morocco-backed bevelled maroon boards, the upper covers blocked in gilt and black and embossed, the spines in 7 compartments, blocked and lettered in gilt and embossed, gilt edges, endpapers printed in blue and silver (extremities rubbed, lower covers scratched, each volume lacking one embossing pin); and two other large illustrated folio works of similar interest. (4)