Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, with Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.
by Belzoni, Giovanni Battista
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London, John Murray, 1820-21.. 1st Edition . Hardcover. .. Two volumes. I. Text: Octavo. PP. xix, 438. Plus frontispiece portrait of the author, one engraved plates and a large folding map; II. Plates: Folio. Comprising of 34 heavy leaves with a total of 44 plates, some in colour, mostly one to a page, often compound. HARDCOVER, nicely bound in matching contemporary half calf and marbled boards, spines gilt. Save for some minor imperfections in fine condition. ~ FIRST EDITION. Text volume second edition. "As I made my discoveries alone, I have been anxious to write my book by myself, though in so doing, the reader will consider me, and with great propriety, guilty of temerity; but the public will perhaps gain in the fidelity of my narrative, what it loses in elegance." - Preface. FTV
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- Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia; and of a Journey to the Coast of the Red Sea, in Search of the Ancient Berenice; and another to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, with Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia.
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- Belzoni, Giovanni Battista
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- Hardcover
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- 1st Edition
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- London, John Murray, 1820-21.
- Keywords
- ARCHAEOLOGY ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION EXCAVATIONS EXPLORATION EXPLORATIONS SURVEY SURVEYS GEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY ANTHROPOLOGICAL GEOLOGY ARCHEOLOGY CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY STUDIES NEAR FAR EAST GREECE GREEK ROME ROMAN EGYPT MEDIEVAL POSTMEDIAEVAL HISTORY P E
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- Archaeology: Ancient Egypt; Egyptology;
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