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Lot 187
[EGYPT] MAILLET, BENOIT DE & JEAN BAPTISTE LE MASCRIER (editor). Description de l'Egypte contenant plusieurs remarques curieuses sur la géographie ancienne et moderne de ce païs, sur les monumens anciens, sur les moeurs, les coutumes & la religion des habitans, sur le gouvernement & le commerce, sur les animaux, les arbres, les plantes, &c composée sur les mémoires de M. de Maillet ...
Paris: L. Genneau and J. Rollin, 1735. First edition. Period brown calf. 10 x 7 3/4 inches (26 x 19.5 cm); xxi, [3], 328, 242, [10] pp.; title printed in red and black, engraved portrait by Jeaurat, folding map and 7 plates, one folding. Covers a bit scuffed, stained, joints worn, internally a generally clean copy; together with DE LA MOTTRAYE, AUBRY DE. Travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa.... London: volume I printed for the author, [1723]; volume II for E. Symon, J. Newton etc., 1732. Two volumes, modern green cloth, edges sprinkled red. 13 7/8 x 9 inches (35 x 22.5 cm); viii, 440 pp., 8 page subscriber list, two maps and 28 plates including frontis., many folding, some engraved by William Hogarth; viii, 296, (10) pp.; frontis, 9 plates, one folding. Tear across the royal license in the first volume, the plates generally sound. Staining to the second volume. Lacking the third volume, some plates possibly lacking from the first two. The lot sold as-is.
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