[Rarebooks] FS: Walsh's CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT, 1803, with 49 plates and maps
Charles Agvent
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WALSH, Thomas. JOURNAL OF THE LATE CAMPAIGN IN EGYPT: INCLUDING
DESCRIPTIONS OF THAT COUNTRY, AND OF GIBRALTAR, MINORCA, MALTA,
MARMORICE, AND MACRI; WITH AN APPENDIX; CONTAINING OFFICIAL PAPERS AND
DOCUMENTS. London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1803. First Edition.
Quarto (8-3/4" x 11") bound in diced brown russia leather
sympathetically rebacked with a gilt-lettered spine, gilt dentelles:
viii, [xx], 261; [7], 145, [1] pages. Complete with the list of
subscribers, Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates, errata,
and appendix. A detailed account of the 1800-1801 British campaign to
rout Napoleon's remaining troops from Egypt illustrated with 49 engraved
plates, maps, and plans (one unnumbered) on 42 sheets, including 6
hand-colored aquatint plates and 6 folding hand-colored maps and plans.
Intermittent foxing and scattered brownspotting with some offsetting
from plates. Attractively bound. Overall Very Good.
Abbey, TRAVEL 266 (claiming an earlier edition of 1801, though no copies
of such an edition have been recorded); Blackmer 1767; Lowndes, 2825: "A
plain and interesting narrative, fully exposing the false statements of
many French writers, particularly Denon." (#017841) $1,500.00
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