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HAY, Robert (1799-1863). Illustrations of Cairo, London: Moyes and Barclay for Tilt and Bogue, 1840.
2° (540 x 370mm.), letterpress title, additional tinted lithographic title, lithographic dedication and 30 tinted lithographic views on 29 sheets by J. C. Bourne after Hay, O. B. Carter and C. Laver (occasional marginal spotting and browning), contemporary blue roan-backed cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover (lightly rubbed and scuffed).
FIRST EDITION. Robert Hay was one of the pioneers of Egyptology. He first visited Egypt in 1824, and returned "as one of the leading members of an archaeological expedition between 1826 and 1838. Among his companions were the artists Arundale, Atherwood, J. Bonomi the younger, and E. W. Lane" (DNB). He established a base camp on the Nile from which the first systematic exploration of the Nile Valley was carried out, and presented a number of Egyptian antiquities to the British Museum which also houses his 49-volume collection of drawings. Abbey Travel 270; Blackmer 794; Brunet III, 64.
2° (540 x 370mm.), letterpress title, additional tinted lithographic title, lithographic dedication and 30 tinted lithographic views on 29 sheets by J. C. Bourne after Hay, O. B. Carter and C. Laver (occasional marginal spotting and browning), contemporary blue roan-backed cloth, titled in gilt on upper cover (lightly rubbed and scuffed).
FIRST EDITION. Robert Hay was one of the pioneers of Egyptology. He first visited Egypt in 1824, and returned "as one of the leading members of an archaeological expedition between 1826 and 1838. Among his companions were the artists Arundale, Atherwood, J. Bonomi the younger, and E. W. Lane" (DNB). He established a base camp on the Nile from which the first systematic exploration of the Nile Valley was carried out, and presented a number of Egyptian antiquities to the British Museum which also houses his 49-volume collection of drawings. Abbey Travel 270; Blackmer 794; Brunet III, 64.
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