Belzoni, Giovanni
Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia
£2,772
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
London: John Murray, 1822. First edition, broadsheets (61 x 46.5cm), original cloth-backed boards with printed label to front, 2 text-leaves (title-page and list of contents), 44 lithographic, etched or aquatint plates on 34 sheets (all but 4 hand-coloured, 2 folding), plates watermarked J. Whatman 1821, binding somewhat scuffed and marked with wear to extremities, a little light spotting to contents, one folding plate with short closed tear and small area of creasing [Abbey Travel 268; Blackmer 117] Together with 2 defective copies of the text volume, Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia, first and second editions, 1820 & 1821, both 4to, first edition in contemporary half calf, lacking most of spine, retaining portrait frontispiece but lacking other plate, second edition in contemporary full calf, with portrait frontispiece, folding map (spotted), one other plate, front cover detached, rear joint split (3)
Provenance
From the library of the Murrays of Dollerie, Crieff, Perthshire.
Footnote
A supplement of six further plates, not present here, was issued in 1822.