Hoskins, George Alexander
Visit to the Great Oasis of the Libyan Desert
£530
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
With an Account, Ancient and Modern, of the Oasis of Amun, and the Other Oases now under the Dominion of the Pasha of Egypt. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1837. First edition, 8vo, xvi 338 pp., original maroon cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and blind, 17 tinted lithographic plates including frontispiece, 3 folding lithographic plates showing Egyptian wall paintings, folding map to rear, spine sunned, headcap slightly frayed, light peripheral fading to boards, marginal spotting to frontispiece, a little light spotting elsewhere [Blackmer 833; not in Abbey]
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.
Footnote
Rare in the original cloth; this copy appears to be in a variant binding, with copies usually described as bound in green cloth.