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42 x 26 cm. Title page and 34 colored lithograph plates

Cairo: The Khedivial press, Bulak, 1864 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Arabic text, 192 p translated by Abd Allah Abu al Soud Effendi, according to the khedivial order of Ismail b. Ibrahim b. Muhammad Ali Pasha, the vice roy of Egypt. A French archaeologist and Egyptologist, Mariette-Bey was sent to Egypt by the Louvre in 1850 to obtain Coptic manuscripts for the museum's collections. Failing in this task, he instead led excavations at Saqqara, Giza, and Thebes and rediscovered the Serapeum. Later, as director of ancient monuments in Egypt and curator of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, he began the enormous task of conserving the antiquities of Egypt and curtailing the wide-spread exportation of cultural objects. Christies note: Voyage dans la Haute-Égypte, sale 2232. Rare in Arabic..

Istanbul: Ahmed Ihsan press, 1907 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by the author to the Khedivial prince Abbas Halim Pasha in 29 Ramazan 1328 (1910). Contemporary fine marbled binding with gilted spine. Ottoman Turkish text, 8vo. 387 p. and 7 p. of index. Many photographic plates..

Cairo: The government press, Bulaq, 1896 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. TALL OCTAVO, 211PP, OF ARABIC TEXT, WITH 4PP OF INDEX. THE AUTHOR WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST LOCAL EGYPTOLOGISTS IN CAIRO AND A LECTURER IN THE EGYPTIAN UNIVERSITY. MODERN FINE BINDING. FOR THE SAME AUTHOR SEE ALSO NO. 000316.