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Rare and modern books

Breton [De La Martini Re, Jean-Baptiste Joseph].

L' gypte et la Syrie, ou moeurs, usages, costumes et monumens des gyptiens, des Arabes et des Syriens. Pr c d d'un Pr cis historique.

Paris, A. Nepveu, 1814.,

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Author
Breton [De La Martini Re, Jean-Baptiste Joseph].
Publishers
Paris, A. Nepveu, 1814.
Keyword
Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses
Languages
English

Description

12mo. 6 vols. With 84 engraved plates, mostly aquatints, in contemporary hand colour, several folding. Contemp. red grained morocco, blindstamped and giltstamped, spine gilt, leading edges and inner dentelle gilt. All edges gilt. First edition, the rare coloured issue in contemporary French master bindings. - Contains a large number of very pretty views and charming genre scenes, also showing costumes, arms, tools, etc. Accompanied by notes by Jean Joseph Marcel (1776-1854), director of the French imperial printshop at Cairo. Immaculate, sumptuously bound copy from the library of Mary Lecomte du No y with her gilt morocco bookplate on all pastedowns. Uncommonly well preserved; most copies in the great travel collections were incomparably the worse for wear: the Atabey copy was described as "rubbed, upper joint of vol. VI wormed" and was uncoloured, as were most of the press run and all recent copies showing up in trade or at auction. - Atabey 148. Blackmer 200. Ibrahim-Hilmy I, 87. R hricht 1631. Lipperheide Ma 10. Colas 438. Hiler 113.
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