Egypt rare books

First edition. 5 volumes, 4to., uncut, engraved title vignettes, three large folding maps, 55 engraved plates including 53 natural history studies, four leaves of Ethiopian script, modern half tan morocco gilt, marbled boards, some old water staining, occasionally heavy, a good set.

First edition, 8vo, viii, 488 pp., coloured frontispiece map, 12 plates, original dark grey decorated cloth with bevelled edges, ruled and lettered in silver and gold, a fine copy.

Folio (57.5 x 44.2 cm), chromolithographic additional title, hand-coloured tinted lithographic frontispiece and 30 hand-coloured plates by Lemoine, Lehnert, Mouilleron, Le Roux and others after Prisse d'Avennes, printed by Lemercier, all mounted on card and loose as issued, titled in pencil below image. Letterpress title, dedication, plate list and 60 pp. of descriptive text by St. John with 35 wood-engraved illustrations, original plain wrappers. Original morocco-backed portfolio with gilt-lettered morocco cover label, rebacked, flaps with morocco renewed, new ties, minor wear to card edges and corners, old waterstain to end leaves, portfolio covers rubbed and a little worn, plates clean and fresh, an excellent copy.

Second edition, 4to, xcii, 543 pp., etched portrait frontispiece, 3 maps (2 folding), bound without half-title, a little spotting to plates, contemporary half calf gilt, marbled edges and sides, green morocco lettering pieces, a very handsome copy.

Second edition. 2 volumes, 8vo., xiv, 300; x, 316 pp., 2 frontispieces (lightly foxed), 2 title-page vignettes, 1 map, original purple blind-stamped cloth gilt, spines faded, neat repairs to extremities, a very good set.

Second (first illustrated) edition, 8vo, viii, 424 pp., large folding maps (tears to folds), 3 wood-engraved plates, original pictorial brown cloth gilt, a very good copy.

Ten parts, landscape elephant folio (39.4 x 51.7 cm), text in German and French, 60 hand-coloured lithographed plates, hand-coloured lithographed pictorial title and dedication page; hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, occasional light spotting.

First edition in English. 2 volumes, 4to, complete with half-titles, xlii, 339; ix, 373 pp., 2 pages ads at end, engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 folding maps, 86 plates and plans by Michallon after Badia (a number folding or double-page), a little light foxing, occasional neat repairs to large folding maps, modern half calf gilt, a very good set.

First edition. 8vo, xxxiii, [i], 560 pp., 2 maps (1 large folding), 2 engraved folding plans, 6 lithographs by Westall, Harding, and others, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked, an excellent copy of a scarce work.

First edition, 8vo, 6 lithographed plates (incl. folding frontispiece & 4 double-page), 2 wood-engravings in text, original grey cloth gilt, decorated in blind with gilt roundel to upper cover, light foxing to plates, generally clean and fresh, binding fine. xxiii, [5], 480 pp.