SONNINI DE MANONCOUR, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert. Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: undertaken by order of the old government of France, London: John Stockdale, 1799, 3 volumes, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 3 engraved frontispieces, 36 engraved plates and one folding map (map detached and cleanly torn, some light spotting), contemporary half calf and marbled boards (front joints of vols. I-II cracked, extremities rubbed). [Cox I, p.395] (3)

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SONNINI DE MANONCOUR, Charles Nicolas Sigisbert. Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt: undertaken by order of the old government of France, London: John Stockdale, 1799, 3 volumes, 8°, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, 3 engraved frontispieces, 36 engraved plates and one folding map (map detached and cleanly torn, some light spotting), contemporary half calf and marbled boards (front joints of vols. I-II cracked, extremities rubbed). [Cox I, p.395] (3)

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Royal Scottish Geographical Society, stamp to titles (slight offsetting to portraits).

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An important work that "treats of matter excluded from circulating libraries, but here related with the utmost candor: such as Egyptian female circumcision, serpent eating, Egyptian lesbianism, women's cosmetics and use of depilatories, sensuality and effeminacy of the baths, red leprosy, masculine beauty, Egyptian homosexuality, circumcision of boys, etc" (Cox).

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