Book Details + Condition: John and Jewett and Co (Boston). First Edition, 1854. Hardcover. 345 pages with chronology and appendix (which also includes "Religious Chant" and "Table of Egyptian Dynasties"). Illustrated with numerous engravings of ancient Egyptian sites and environs. Chapters include:
- First Impressions - Alexandria, Ancient and Modern
- The Embarkation - The Nile
- Navigation - Villages - Bazaar - Houses - People
- Mother Egypt - Thebes - Temples - Monuments
- Crocodiles
- River Saints and Coptic Hermits
- Gods of the Egyptians - Doctrine of Immortality
- Dissolving Panorama and Karnac
- Antiquity of Art and Science and Mohammedanism
- Climate of the Nile
- Early Christianity in Egypt
- And much more.
Firm binding; rubbed corners and edges; wear to boards, with discoloration and fading present; chafing to spine ends, with a bit of cloth missing; foxing mainly to first and last few pages; interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
