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18535673Philadelphia: Lippincott Grambo And Co. 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Poor. 12mo 173 pages publisher's embossed cloth botanicals pressed between some leaves lacks rear endpaper edgeworn. torn at heel of spine; ex libris David Randall Tamaqua Penna.: this book usually presents in damaged condition. <br/><br/>" Although the regions visited by him may have been already described by others . it has nevertheless been his fortune to be among the first to witness some recent discoveries as yet unknown in the United States among which may be mentioned the singular ruins of Jadjar Khem in Malta and the vast subterranean halls near the site of ancient Memphis in Egypt - Preface." Written in an epistolary style. Frontispiece plate. Lippincott, Grambo, And Co. hardcover
19008374NEWCASTLE FENWICK 1900 1900. LT BROWN OVER TAN BOARDS FIRST EDITION VERY GOOD. F. Hardcover. NEWCASTLE, FENWICK, 1900 hardcover
188683474Le Caire 1886. Hardcover. Very Good. First item: 114p. Second item: 166p. Later quarter cloth with both wrappers bound in. 24 cm. Former owner's name. French text. hardcover
1900180921900. Archive of 9 stereoview photographs bearing a double 6" x 3" inch photograph showing various scenes from turn of the century Egypt. 1896-1900. Images include the Temple of Luxor village women carrying pitchers of water on their heads a caravan at the Tomb of the Khalif's the Virgin's tree and the Great Nile Bridge. Locations are marked beneath the images in text. 5 include identifying information in multiple language on verso. Most are marked "J.F.Jarvis Publisher Washington D.C" in cursive script with small black "x" mark in corner and "Sold only by Underwood & Underwood New York London Toronto Canada Ottawa Kansas." Images are clear and detailed. Most in very good condition. unknown
1895167854Vienne : Adolphe Holzhausen 1895. First Edition. Paperback. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 387 pages; Description: 387 p. : ill. plates part col. diagrs. plans ; 34 cm. Subjects: Egypt --Antiquities --Kom Ombo Egypt Vienne : Adolphe Holzhausen paperback
188383522Le Caire: Barbier 1883. Hardcover. Good. 566p. Contemporary quarterbinding. 17 cm. Moderate cover scuffing and wear. Inked note in French on endpaper. Hinges repaired. French text. Barbier hardcover
18070005807London: Samuel Bagster 1807. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good. copperplate frontispiece. Quarto vii 82 ccli Table leaf clxxxi-ii has a fore-edge chip from the press; half calf marbled boards scuffed very light foxing. With an engraved Baronial bookplate possibly John Henry Vivian or his son Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian member of the Royal Geographical Society inked name on recto of frontispiece the frontispiece caption is trimmed and spotted. <br/><br/>Denon a noted artist and engraver accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt to record the scenery and antiquities. This volume describes the plates of the Atlas volume. Additionally there are important Appendices about the pyramids at Geza Alexandria minerals medicine "Memoire sur le Commerce des Negres au Caire et sur les Maladies ." etc. This British edition with French text is quite scarce. An 1809 re-issue had cancelled title-pages. Note: curiously the printed title-page reads "Voyages" not in the singular as listed elsewhere. Copperplate frontispiece. Samuel Bagster hardcover
18500006137London: John Murray 1850. Third edition. Hardcover. Good. 17 illustrations the costume drawings were made by a Maltese artist. Octavo lv 420 pages original covers new spine endpapers and paper label. <br/><br/>Part 1 in six chapters is "Egypt in 1833". Other monasteries in the Turkish Empire and also Jerusalem. Appendix II is "Recipes of Turkish Cookery 5pp." 17 illustrations the costume drawings were made by a Maltese artist . With a folding plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Curzon aka Lord Zouche travelled the Middle East in search of Biblical manuscripts. "I will write down some account of the most curious of these manuscripts and the places in which they were found as well as some of the adventures which I encountered in the pursuit of my venerable game - Preface." John Murray hardcover
185213640New York: Harper & Brothers. 1852. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light wear to extremities. Label on front endpaper. Former owner's name on front free endpaper. Light foxing to first few pages ; Decorative dark brown boards with gilt pictorial decoration and gilt frame ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 320 pages . Harper & Brothers hardcover
19009773Bruxelles Lefèvre 1900. 1st Edition . Offprint. . Royal octavo. Pp. 38 1. Original printed stiff wrappers bit thumbed. In a very good condition. ~ FIRST EDITION thus. Extrait de la Revue de l'Université de Bruxelles 1899-1900. Jean Capart 1877-1947. One of his very first contributions on Egyptology apparently his second written at the age of 22. At the time of publication he was already a Doctor of Laws and was just appointed assistant Conservator in the Egyptian collections at the Musées Royaux. The article was published in February 1900 and is comprising of extracts from his doctoral dissertation which apparently was never published. There is a record of only one article that was published earlier "Notes sur les origines de l'Égypte d'après les fouilles recentes" which appeared in 1899 also in Revue de l'université de Bruxelles. Provenance: Presentation copy signed 1900 and dedicated by the author to Egyptologist Prof. Baudouin van de Walle 1901-1988 from whose library this item comes. Very rare. Not in Beinlich-Seeber. WorldCat locates a single copy that in Bibliothèque de Genève. ~Librarium of The Hague offers the largest and finest collection of Egyptological offprint monographs in the rare book market. With the acquisition in recent years of multiple Egyptological libraries those of Prof. Herman te Velde; Prof. Mathieu Heerma van Voss Prof. Baudouin van de Walle; Prof. Michel Malaise; Prof. Herman De Meulenaere; Egyptologist Jacobus Visser and former Trustee of the Egypt Exploration Society Stewart Dale White we now hold several thousands of rare offprint monographs which were collected over many years by these scholars. Very limited in number when originally issued and fragile by nature most are by now practically extinct and the scarce survivors are much sought after. We took upon ourselves to collate catalogue and identify each item in accordance with Beinlich-Seeber or Annual Egyptological Bibliography in the hope that this collection will prove useful for scholars and collectors alike. Your queries are most welcome OFP-12 <br/> <br/> Bruxelles, Lefèvre unknown
181816654Glasgow: Falconer 1818. hardcover. Good. 300 pages. Bound in newer fine 3/4 black leather and green cloth white endpapers. Spine has 5 raised bands gold title on red leather panel gold decoration and 1818 date. Half-inch chip at bottom of title page and black ink stain at bottom of first few pages. Pages somewhat ruffled darkened with age and some foxing. <br/><br/> Falconer hardcover
1805035780Philadelphia PA 1805. Book. Good. Quarter-Leather. First Thus. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Brown 1/4 calf blue-gray paper covered boards leather title label mounted on upper spine panel with the word "Voyages" in gilt 7 gilt spine bands. 311 pp. Moderate shelf wear rubbed with exposure along edges leather showing some surface rubbing but still nicely intact. Binding firm. Vintage owner signature of G. W. C. Evans on front pastedown otherwise unmarked. Unfortunately lacking main title so we are unable to confirm publisher edition or year of issue and we have been unable to match this copy based on pagination; printer indicated as R. Carr Church-Alley on final page of text thus indicating this edition to have been printed in Philadelphia most likely in the first decade of the 19th century Carr is listed as a printer at 19 and 10 Church Alley in the 1808 Philadelphia City Directory and other of his printings located institutionally are dated 1803-10. Interior otherwise decently intact with scattered foxing generally light ranging in a few places to moderate. This edition does not appear to have contained illustrations or maps. Hardcover
185121724New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. Boards with light rubbing to extremities. A very handsome and tight copy. Very light occasional foxing. Former owner's inscription on first blank page.; Full decorative calf boards with blindstamped decoration and gilt linear design. Spine with five raised boards and gilt spine decoration. All edges gilt. Decorative dentelle binding. Numerous tissue guarded b&w illustrations from beautiful steel engravings. This is a travelogue from an extensive trip up the Nile river during the times when everybody in Europe started to show interest for Egypt. The pictures include typical scenes: A street in Cairo The Bazaar A Slave Boat at Girgeh Valley of the Tombs of the Kings The Hall of Beauty in the Tomb of Pharao Seti.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 218 pages . Harper & Brothers, Publishers hardcover
1895ABC_475631895. Oblong folio 28 x 39 cm. Contemporary gold-tooled black morocco gilt edges. With 58 photograph prints ca. 21 x 25.5 to 13.5 x 20 cm. Mounted on both sides of the leaves in the album. 60 pp. The album contains 15 silver albumen photographs of Melbourne taken mainly from the series C. Rudd's new views of Melbourne 1886-1887 by Charles Rudd 1849-1901. They show Collins Street Melbourne town hall the public library Parliament House the Court of Law Government House and various other buildings and infrastructure as well as botanical gardens such as Fitzroy Gardens. The photographs of Sydney were the work of the renowned Australian photographer Henry King 1855-1923 born in England in 1855 who emigrated to Australia with his family in 1856. He worked as a photographer at J. Hubert Newman's studio in Sydney before opening his own studio in 1880. King gained recognition for his photographic studies of Australian Aboriginal people and his scenic views of Sydney. He died in 1923 leaving behind his wife son and three daughters. His glass negatives were acquired by J.R. Tyrrell after his death and are now held by the Powerhouse Museum. King is one of Australia's most significant early photographers. The album contains seventeen of Kings photographs of the harbour including Farm Cove and the Circular Quay Government House and interior and exterior photographs of the town hall King and George Street the Mutual Life Association Building the General Post Office and the Ferner Botanical Garden. Rural New South Was appears in nine photographs including images of Illawarra National Park the Hawkesbury River and a series of outdoor photographs taken along the coast at Blackwall and dated July 1895.This curious album of 58 photographs from France Egypt and most importantly Australia opens with a section with six photos from Marseille showing street views the city harbour the Avenue du Prado and the castles.The ten photographs from Egypt depict both the cultural highlights of the country such as the Pyramids the Sphinx the Citadel of Cairo and the Palace of Gizeh as well as ordinary Arabian villages and street scenes. They stemmed from the ateliers of the Abdullah brothers of Constantinople. The Abdullah Frères namely Viçen 1820-1902 Hovsep 1830-1908 and Kevork 1839-1918 Abdullahyan were three Ottoman brothers of Armenian heritage who gained international fame as photographers during the late Ottoman Empire. Some evidence suggests that he may have collaborated with the Zangaki Brothers and he may have been the official photographer for the Universal Company of the Suez Canal. Later he worked in partnership with the British-Italian photographer Antonio Beato.With an owners inscription in pencil "a appartenu Alfred Schmid" some photographs are captioned in black ink or pencil detailing the places. With a small label from the bookshop that sold the album: "Papeterie Sauwen-Jehotte" in Antwerp. The edges are somewhat bumped and some browning and foxing throughout. Otherwise in good condition. unknown
1889ABC_49512Yemen Egypt and other places 1889. Contemporary burgundy/auburn gold- and blindstamped calf lozenge-patterned blindstamping. Re-backed with the original back strip laid down. Gold-stamped turn-ins white watered silk endpapers gilt edges. Oblong folio 37.8 x 28 cm. An album containing 25 albumen prints ca. 20 x 27 cm including 1 double page mounted on thick card leaves many captioned in English. Photographic record of a journey begun in Australia and taken via Aden through the Suez canal and to the Mediterranean and then on to England. While the first image shows the steamship R.M.S. Ormuz in the port of Sydney three images including a double-page spread show the port of Aden in Yemen the famous water tanks and a native of the Southern Arabian region in a studio portrait. The majority of the album is dedicated to Egypt showing Arabs on their camels the Khedive's Ismailia Palace the Suez Canal Port Said and members the local population as well as the famous pyramids. The last few photographs show the final leg of the journey Naples and ultimately Gibraltar. Among the studios identified in the photographs are those of Hippolyte Arnoux and the Zangaki brothers based at Port Said.With a near-contemporary manuscript inscription in blue ink on the verso of the first flyleaf: "Edith Elkington or Elrington Aunt Ediths voyage home - to England about 1889". Foxed throughout slightly water stained but the prints are largely clean and clear some paper repairs in the margins the last flyleaf is lacking the final leaf is nearly detached. unknown
1888ABC_47975Cairo 1888. 34 albumen prints ca. 22 x 27 cm mounted on cream cardstock ca. 28 x 35.5 cm. Remarkable collection of 34 stunning photographic prints of Egypt all numbered titled and signed in the negative by photographer Jean Pascal Sébah 1872-1947 who owned the leading studio for Orientalist photography. He was even named the official photographer of the Sultan of Turkey together with his business partner Polycarpe Joailllier 1848-1904. The majority of the images in the present collection show streets and buildings from lesser known Egyptian cities and scenes of daily life. Larger collections of Sébah's work are relatively rare on the market.Sébah continued the business of his father Pascal Sébah 1823-1886 one of the first photographers working in Egypt. Pascal rose to prominence because of his well-organized compositions careful lighting and quality of his prints. The majority of his photographs are of tourist destinations and locals. Jean Pascal inherited his father's good eye but was more interested in depicting lesser known locations. His photos of people also appear more spontaneous. The present collection includes photographs of El-Souroughieh street and the Khalig canal in Cairo the Virgin Mary's tree in Matariya a local with a buffalo a group of seated men in a mosque a sugarcane market locals working on a sugarcane field a group of boys fishing and the hustle and bustle along the Nile.With a small purple ownership stamp of an anchor in mirror image and the letters "S A" near the top edge of one of the photographs of the Nile. The cardstock is very slightly foxed and yellowed and has somewhat warped from past temperature fluctuations. The prints have somewhat yellowed around the edges but are otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Saretzky The history of photography online. unknown
1888ABC_47975Cairo 1888. 34 albumen prints ca. 22 x 27 cm mounted on cream cardstock ca. 28 x 35.5 cm. Remarkable collection of 34 stunning photographic prints of Egypt all numbered titled and signed in the negative by photographer Jean Pascal Sébah 1872-1947 who owned the leading studio for Orientalist photography. He was even named the official photographer of the Sultan of Turkey together with his business partner Polycarpe Joailllier 1848-1904. The majority of the images in the present collection show streets and buildings from lesser known Egyptian cities and scenes of daily life. Larger collections of Sébah's work are relatively rare on the market.Sébah continued the business of his father Pascal Sébah 1823-1886 one of the first photographers working in Egypt. Pascal rose to prominence because of his well-organized compositions careful lighting and quality of his prints. The majority of his photographs are of tourist destinations and locals. Jean Pascal inherited his father's good eye but was more interested in depicting lesser known locations. His photos of people also appear more spontaneous. The present collection includes photographs of El-Souroughieh street and the Khalig canal in Cairo the Virgin Mary's tree in Matariya a local with a buffalo a group of seated men in a mosque a sugarcane market locals working on a sugarcane field a group of boys fishing and the hustle and bustle along the Nile.With a small purple ownership stamp of an anchor in mirror image and the letters "S A" near the top edge of one of the photographs of the Nile. The cardstock is very slightly foxed and yellowed and has somewhat warped from past temperature fluctuations. The prints have somewhat yellowed around the edges but are otherwise in good condition.l Cf. Saretzky The history of photography online. unknown
1891ABC_47521Egypt: Zangaki brothers 1891. Original gold-stamped bubble-grained maroon cloth over boards modern maroon cloth spine and leather corners. Gold stamped title and year on the front white watered silk endpapers. Oblong album 31.5 x 41 cm. With 34 large albumen prints mounted on heavy cardstock leaves. Most of the photographs are numbered and captioned in French in the negative and signed 'Zangaki'. The last one is signed Sebah & Joallier. The Zangaki prints measure 22.5 x 28.5 cm; the Sebah & Joallier one is 20.5 x 26.5 cm. A large German album with 34 albumen prints of Egypt. The Greek brothers G. and C. Zangaki were photographers who worked in Egypt in the second half of the 19th century. Due to increased tourism to this region after the opening of the Suez Canal there was a large demand for souvenir photographs. Photographers like the Zangaki brothers as well as Sebah & Joallier catered to this. The Zangakis were among the first commercial photographers to produce large-scale images of Egypt. They travelled through the country with a portable darkroom to capture high-quality images of famous monuments and daily life though the latter were usually posed. These images were then printed and sold to tourists either separately or compiled into albums. According to John Hannavy the brothers "produced some of the finest images of late Victorian Egypt". The 34 photographs include: the great pyramid Cairo and the Nile dervishes and other exotic looking locals Egyptians standing on top of the sphinx obeliscs the Ramesseum Karnak temple the temple of Dendera the Great Pyramid Egyptians climbing the pyramid the mosque and tomb of Muhammad Ali Saqqara and many others.With two small library stamps on the first page not affecting the photograph. The book has been rebacked. The left side of the front board has faded and the corners are worn. Minor browning around the edges of the leaves. Back flyleaf loose. The photos are crisp and clear and the book is otherwise in good condition.l Erdem Views of Egypt by Georgios and Constantinos Zangaki: Examining a late nineteenth-century photographic album at the Art Gallery of Ontario thesis 2006; Hannavy Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography pp. 1036 1093 & 1521. Zangaki brothers, hardcover
1890TK0363Probably ca. 1890s. i.e. certainly before 1905. 1890. Folio. 14 x 15.5 inches. 48 original mounted professional photographs each a full-page image. Modern half red morocco cloth. A piece of the original cloth cover with the title in German as shown is mounted within the volume. Fine. 48 fine vintage photographs 23 of which are signed by the photograph 19 by the Zangaki Brothers; 4 by Antoine Beoto. The images are taken in the southern Egyptian Luxor region including images of the Valley of the Kings at Luxor temple the Nile Karnak temple and Thebes. / The first photograph shows the Sphynx and in front are a couple presumedly a husband & wife perhaps German or Swiss-German obviously tourists. This is their memory album of a visit to Luxor in southern Egypt the place of the Valley of the Kings. The photographs some of which are titled are chiefly titled in French. Even though 23 of the photographs are signed it is clear that the whole album is made up of images from these two photographers meaning that 47 of the images should be either by the Zangaki Brothers or Antoine Beoto's studio. The only unique image should be the first one showing the two travelers and their guides. Probably ca. 1890s. [i.e., certainly before 1905]. hardcover
184134772London: Hamilton Adams & Co. 1841. First Edition. Illustrated with an engraved portrait frontispiece of Mohammed Ali. 8vo publisher's original brown cloth the spine lettered in gilt the covers decorated and blocked in blind with fillet rules and inner decorations at the borders the upper cover with gilt pictorial device showing a camel being led by a tender and with palms and pyramid in the background. xvi 280 pp. A handsome copy in unusually pleasing condition the binding in good order even as age is observable the gilt bright the text block clean the hinges sound a bit of offset to the plate very well preserved and rare thus. SCARCE FIRST EDITION. An important and primary work on man who would Muhammad Alia 1769 – 1849 was the Ottoman viceroy and governor who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848 widely considered the founder of modern Egypt. At the height of his rule in 1840 he controlled Egypt Sudan Hejaz the Levant Crete and parts of Greece and transformed Cairo from a mere Ottoman provincial capital to the center of an expansive empire.<br> Ali was a military commander in an Albanian Ottoman force sent to recover Egypt from French occupation following Napoleon's withdrawal. He rose to power through a series of political maneuvers and in 1805 he was named W li of Egypt and gained the rank of Pasha. As W li Ali attempted to modernize Egypt by instituting dramatic reforms in the military economic and cultural spheres. He also initiated a violent purge of the Mamluks consolidating his rule and permanently ending the Mamluk hold over Egypt.<br> Militarily Ali recaptured the Arabian territories for the sultan and conquered Sudan of his own accord. In 1831 Ali waged war against the sultan capturing Syria crossing into Anatolia and directly threatening Constantinople.<br> After defeating the Ottomans multiple times he accepted a peace brokered by European powers in 1842 and withdrew from the Levant; in return he and his descendants were granted hereditary rule over Egypt and Sudan. His dynasty would rule Egypt for over a century until the revolution of 1952 when King Farouk was overthrown by the Free Officers Movement led by Mohamed Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser establishing the Republic of Egypt. <br> Hamilton, Adams & Co. hardcover
187133745London: John Murray 1871. 2 volumes. Fifth Edition With Numerous Additions and Improvements From a Copy Annotated by the Author With 130 illustrations through the two volumes appearing in both text and as full-page plates. 8vo publisher's original blind-embossed cloth the spine panels lettered in gilt. xxiii 386; viii 379 pp. A very fine set beautifully preserved as pristine and near mint hinges and text-blocks both in excellent condition very scarce in this condition. A VERY FINE WORK ON MANY ASPECTS OF EGYPTIAN MANNERS UP TO THE MIDDLE OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. Illustrated throughout the books were acknowledged for their accuracy and scope. They were reprinted many times well into the 20th century and have long been considered one of the most astute texts on Egypt and the Egyptians into the 20th century. Subjects included in the chapters relate to the country and climate religion and laws government domestic life society language literature science superstitions and magic alchemy industry tobacco bath games and music public celebrations and festivals as well as many more subjects. A complete work on Egypt. John Murray hardcover
188334775London: Richard Bentley & Son 1883. First Edition. 8vo publisher's original dark-green polished cloth the upper blocked in blind at the borders and with gilt depiction of a sailing dhow at the center the spine lettered and decorated in gilt the lower cover blocked in blind. viii 359 pp. An as fine copy with little evidence of age and no evidence of use the text-block still unopened unusual thus. SCARCE FIRST EDITION IN PREMIUM CONDITION. Gabriel Charmes 1850-1886 was a prolific writer on diverse subjects. One of the most brilliant of French journalists of his time he was destined to die relatively young from tuberculosis. FIVE MONTHS AT CAIRO AND IN LOWER EGYPT is a vivid and detailed account of life in Egypt in the 19th century and it offers a unique window into a fascinating period of history. Charmes journalist and adventurer describes his travels through the teeming streets of Cairo his encounters with many characters and his excursions to historic sites such as the pyramids and the Sphinx. With its rich descriptions and firsthand observations this book is an special read for anyone interested in the history and culture of Egypt and the work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Richard Bentley & Son hardcover
188856383London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co. 1888. 4to. ix 1 187 7 pp. plus 4 pp. publisher’s ads. Blue-gray publisher’s cloth black ruling & gilt lettering on front cover & spine minor rubbing shelfwear slight bumping to corners still VG bright copy. First edition of this anthology of historical and descriptive sketches along with travel through Victorian Egypt by the noted journalist and manager of “The Times.†He sent newspaper and magazine reports during the Arab revolt of 1882 the subsequent British occupation and was well remembered for his telegrahpic description of the bombardment of Alexandria. Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., hardcover
1900229490Printed by Newcastle-upon-Thane Fenwick & Wade ca. 1900. 1900. First edition. 8vo. 8 b/w figures. Original 1/2 light brown cloth over tan boards spine and upper cover with printed labels lower right corner is worn. Very good. 138 pages. No signatures or bookplates. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. [Printed by Newcastle-upon-Thane, Fenwick & Wade, ca. 1900]. hardcover
182228211London: John Hearne 1822. Print. Very good condition. A very decorative view of Cairo with the River Nile in the foreground boaters a fisherman and cowheard watering bullocks showing the life of the river buildings in background. From the book "A Selection of Views in Egypt Palestine Rhodes Italy Minorca and Gibraltar" by Rev. Cooper Willyams. Period color aquatint on paper with the watermark "J Whatman Turkey Mill 1822." Platemark 14 3/4 x 10 3/4" on paper 15 3/4 x 11 5/8" John Hearne unknown