£450
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 694
Auction: 13 July 2022 at 11:00 BST
[London: Samuel Bagster, 1807]. Folio (48.5 x 28.5cm), 19th-century half morocco, engraved frontispiece, 107 plates (many folding), including large area map, plans, views, and depictions of hieroglyphs and antiquities, plates 25 and 84 not present (these listed as bound as frontispieces to the text volumes), tide-mark to head of gutter (encroaching on a few platemarks), occasional spotting and browning, plates 74 and 77 each with short closed handling tear, a few other marks [cf. Blackmer 471]