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LA CHAMBRE, Marin Cureau de. Discours sur les causes du debordement du Nil. Paris: Jacques Dallin, 1665. 4° (241 x 178nmm). Engraved map of the sources of the Nile. Contemporary speckled calf, upper cover lettred in gilt 'Aux Capucins De St.Honoré', spine gilt (extremities slightly rubbed, neat repair to foot of spine). Provenance: Capucins of St.Honore (binding, early inscription by the ?author 'Pour Les Capucins de St. Honoré'); Henry Blackmer (bookplate). FIRST EDITION, issue without the frontispiece. Blackmer 935.
[Jerome LOBO (1593-1678)]. A short relation of the River Nile, of its source and current; of its overflowing the campagnia of Aegypt, till it runs into the Mediterranean: and other curiosities: Written by an Eye-witnesse. London: printed for John Martyn, 1669. Small 8° (142 x 92mm). (Lacking final ?blank G8, browned, spotted, repairs to the margins of the first eight leaves.) Modern sprinkled calf, spine lettered in gilt (but faded). Wing L-2733. (2)
[Jerome LOBO (1593-1678)]. A short relation of the River Nile, of its source and current; of its overflowing the campagnia of Aegypt, till it runs into the Mediterranean: and other curiosities: Written by an Eye-witnesse. London: printed for John Martyn, 1669. Small 8° (142 x 92mm). (Lacking final ?blank G8, browned, spotted, repairs to the margins of the first eight leaves.) Modern sprinkled calf, spine lettered in gilt (but faded). Wing L-2733. (2)
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