BUDGE, Sir E. A. Wallis. The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt. London: Thos. Cook & Son. 1890.
8vo. Original flexible brown cloth, decorated in gilt with Egyptian hieroglyphs, lettered in gilt to upper cover and spine, marbled edges and endpapers; pp. xv, 311; folding map in red and black, plans and illustrations to text; cloth a trifle marked and with a little wear to edges of the front board, ownership ins cription in pencil by susannah Wilkinson, dated Cairo, 1893 to half-title, a very good copy.
Rare first edition. One of several Egyptological works from the pen of E. A. Wallis Budge, this handbook offers a comprehensive guide to Egypt, with many notes on the archaeological wealth of the country updated according to contemporary archaeological discoveries. - We had this successful title which reached the tenth dition in 1907 several times, but never a first edition.
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