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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 10 other works on Egypt in 14 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) and semitischen Sprachstamm (Leipzig, 1844). The lot sold not subject to return.
With 10 other works on Egypt in 14 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) and semitischen Sprachstamm (Leipzig, 1844). The lot sold not subject to return.
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