London: The Pioneer Publishing Co., Ltd, [1923-1926]. A vast work on this equally vast project, never completed, driven... Read More about The Story of the Cape to Cairo Railway and River Route, from 1887 to 1922
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Ipswich: East Anglian Times, 1951. First edition. These tales were told by Sheikh Sulaiman al-Kretli and were put together by John Gayer-Anderson's brother T.G. Gayer-Anderson after his brother's death. He owned the house Bait al-Kretliya which with all his Islamic treasure reverted back to the Egyptian State on his death..... Read More about Legends of the Bait Al-Kretliya as Told by Sheikh Sulaiman al-Kretli and put into English by R.G....
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New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Preface: "For two women to start upon a camping trip in the desert, with only an Arab retinue to protect them seems to some of our friends to show a high sense of adventure..." The two women are our author and her co-author Lady Evelyn..... Read More about Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert
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Paris: Fortin, Masson et Cie, 1840. First edition. Read More about Aperçu Général sur L’Égypte
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London: Country Life Limited, [1938]. First edition. Chapters on Turtle Dove Shooting, Quail Shooting, Duck Shooting, The Charm of Desert shooting, big and small game in the Egytian Desert, game fishing, the Arab horse (2 ahapters) etc. Read More about Sport in Egypt. With a Forewqard by H.M. Farouk and an Introduction by The Rt. Hon. Lord Lloyd of...
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London: George Routledge, nd. Journeying up the Nile during the winter of 1873-4 Amelia Edwards was so taken with her surroundings and the historical nature of Egypt and Nubia that she became immersed in the study of Egyptology. It took her two years of extensive work to produce this book..... Read More about A Thousand Miles up the NIle
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London: Thos. Cook & Son; Cairo: Cook's Tourist Office, 1890. First edition. Budge, the noted Egyptologist was keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum from 1893 to 1924. He is well known for his excavations in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Sudan. Read More about The Nile. Notes for Travellers in Egypt
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Brussels: 1850. First editions. Read More about Voyage en Égypte et en Grece. Together with Voyage en Afrique
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Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1938. Second edition, published under the auspices of the Royal Archaeological Society of Alexandria. With ALS. Includes autograph letter, signed, addressed to Kenneth Bailey — mentioning Lord Nelson, Charlotte Yonge and George Washington and remarking on how difficult it is to get a copy of this book..... Read More about Alexandria: A History and a Guide
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[Cairo: ca. 1860s]. The Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan is a massive Mamluk era mosque and madrassa located near the Citadel in Cairo. Its construction began 757 AH/1356 CE with work ending three years later "without even a single day of idleness". Hammerschmidt (fl. 1858-1870) operated photographic studios in Berlin and Cairo..... Read More about Mosquée Sultan Hassan au Caire
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Cairo: 1886. Gezira Sporting Club is the largest multi-sport facility in Egypt. It was founded in 1882 and was originally called Khedivial Sporting Club. Both of these programs are annotated in pencil by an unknown spectator - "all that didn't run have a heavy black mark. All that won have..... Read More about Khedivial Sporting Club. Cairo 1st Winter Races. First Day Wednesday 29th December 1886. WITH:...
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London: Albert & Charles Black, 1906. Early printing. Read More about Egypt Painted and Described
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[Woolwich: 1868-1870]. Highly competent album of drawings of fortifications, mines, and elevations by the young Kitchener while a student at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Kitchener (1850-1916), born in Ireland to English parents and raised in Switzerland, spent “an undistinguished two years” at the Royal Military Academy. When he progressed to..... Read More about Album of ink and watercolor drawings
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Los Angeles: Frank C. Baxter, 1968. Second issue?. The first edition was published in 1968 in sixty copies, this is one of twenty copies reprinted (reproduced ) November 1, 1968. One of 20 copies. A very interesting collection including works by Lawrence, literary associations, tributed in verse, Lawrence as a...... Read More about An Annotated Check-List of A Collection of Writings by and About T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of...
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1920s. An extensive album of photo postcards from the Mediterranean region, likely produced in the 1920s. Includes approximately 40 photos of Cairo and other locales on the Nile and in Egypt, including mosques and other architectural views, port and river scenes, Cairo street life, etc, as well as street scenes..... Read More about Album of 181 real photo postcards of the Mediterranean
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London: Smith, Elder & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1896. First edition. Read More about The Mameluke Dynasty of Egypt 1260-1517 A.D
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London: Egypt Exploration Fund, 1913. This last volume published by the Egypt Exploration fund on the two temples of Deir el-Bahari describes the votive statues, steles, and small objects deposited in the tombs. Read More about The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari. Part III. [...] Thirty-Second Memoir of the Egypt...
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London: Printed for Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers in Holborn; printers to the Royal Society, 1757. First octavo edition in English. The earliest attempt at an elaborate description of Egypt (Blackmer). Read More about Travels in Egypt and Nubia … Translated from the original published by his Majesty the King of...
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London: F.G. Moon, Aug. 1, 1846. Read More about Hand-Colored Lithograph: "Temple at Esneh, Nov. 25, 1838."
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London: F.G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, August 1, 1849. Read More about Lithograph: "Dancing Girls at Cairo", 2 dancing girls and three musicians
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New York: The Scribner Press, 1908. First edition, Copy No. 3 of only 20 printed. One of 20 Copies, Inscribed to J.P. Morgan by the Author. Inscribed on the flyleaf: "To JOHN PIERPONT MORGAN, Esq. / With sincerest regards / & compliments of the Author / John Barry Ryan /..... Read More about The Secret of the Serdab. An Incident of the Mutiny of the Egyptian Army against the Khedive
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London: Published by Sir Richard Phillips & Co, 1822. First edition. Read More about Travels in The Countries between Alexandria and Paraetonium, The Lybian Desert, Siwa, Egypt,...
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New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1883. Read More about On the Desert: With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt
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