[Rarebooks] fa: RAMBLES IN EGYPT AND CANDIA [CRETE] - C. Rochfort Scott - 2 vols./Plates 1837

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C. Rochfort Scott: Rambles in Egypt and Candia, with Details of the Military Power and Resources of Those Countries, and Observations on the Government, Policy, and Commercial System of Mohammed Ali. London: Henry Colburn, 1837. First edition. Two volumes, 8vo (21.5 cm), original half calf and marbled boards, re-cased and re-backed in modern calf, spine tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers and page edges; xx, 348 pp.; vii, 358 pp.; with an in-text woodcut and 6 engraved plates, including a folding plan of Karnak (complete).

Some light spotting and browning to the edges of the plates (most noticeable on the frontispiece to vol. I), light toning to the text leaves, otherwise exceedingly clean and fresh, firmly bound. One of the original marbled boards has been professionally and sympathetically replaced with an attractive later substitute. Front paste-down of volume one with the elaborate heraldic bookplate of The Rt. Honble. Lord Gray, probably Francis Gray, 14th Lord Gray (1765-1842), member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of London, Postmaster General of Scotland, etc. A handsome copy of a rather scarce title, especially so in this condition and complete.

Crete lay under Ottoman rule at the time of Scott's "rambles," and his account is considered particularly valuable for its largely sympathetic view of Mehmet Ali's administration of the island. There's a lot of material on Egypt, too, of course, which is always fun.