1822 Travels in the Oasis of Thebes and in the Deserts Situated East and West of the Thebaid In the years 1815, 16, 17, and 18.

Description

An Important Work, First Edition, Folding Maps, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

The first English edition of this work, published a year after the French edition. This work was issued as a part of Sir Richard Phillips and Co's 'Modern Voyages and Travels' series. As noted to the front board, this title is 'Part III vol VII'. With a folding frontispiece map and seventeen plates to the rear. Two of the plates to the rear are maps. There are extensive notes regarding these beautifully engraved plates to the start of the volume. Collated using the British library collation on copac, and plate descriptors at the start of the work, is complete with eighteen plates total. With an introduction by the editor, M Jomard. Jomard was a French cartographer and archaeologist. He edited many works on Egypt including 'Description de L'Egypte'. Frederic Cailliaud was a French naturalist, mineralogist and conchologist. This work regards his travels in Egypt, where he collected minerals and made several observations. This work provided information on Egypt that had never been seen by Western eyes before. It is an important work with regards to the development of knowledge of Egypt in the West. A scarce work, particularly in the original boards.