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EGYPT -- Claude Etienne SAVARY. Lettres sur l' Egypte, Paris: chez Onfroi, 1785-86. 3 volumes, 8° (200 x 120mm). 4 folding engraved maps (a few spots and repairs). Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces (rubbed and scuffed, joints at foot of vol. III worn). FIRST EDITION. Blackmer 1492: "His description of Egypt ... became the manual for scholarly travellers to the country. Savary's work is particularly interesting because ... he was the first Frenchman to cite Arab texts"; Hilmy II, 214.
With 11 other works on Egypt in 15 volumes including Dominique Vivant Denon's Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt (London, 1803, 2 vols., engraved plates, without the atlas vol.), James Augustus St. John's Egypt, and Mohammed Ali (London, 1834, 2 vols., rebound), Theodor Benfey's Ueber das Verhaltniss der ägyptischen Sprache zum semitischen Sprachstamm (Leipzig, 1844) and David Roberts's Egypt and Nubia (London, 1846, 2°, vol. one only, with just 6 tinted lithographed plates). The lot sold not subject to return. (18)
With 11 other works on Egypt in 15 volumes including Dominique Vivant Denon's Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt (London, 1803, 2 vols., engraved plates, without the atlas vol.), James Augustus St. John's Egypt, and Mohammed Ali (London, 1834, 2 vols., rebound), Theodor Benfey's Ueber das Verhaltniss der ägyptischen Sprache zum semitischen Sprachstamm (Leipzig, 1844) and David Roberts's Egypt and Nubia (London, 1846, 2°, vol. one only, with just 6 tinted lithographed plates). The lot sold not subject to return. (18)
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