Sold for:
$200
$200
London: Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757. 2 vols. in one. 8vo, contemporary calf, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers. First octavo edition of the "earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt." (Blackmer) Complete with folding map frontispiece and six engraved plates. Boards lightly worn with hinges cracked; bookplate tipped in front pastedown; intermittent marginalia and light offsetting from plates.
Auctioneer:
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Date:
2013-04-10
