With Ten New Plates
LEGH, Thomas.
Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the country beyond the cataracts ... Second edition. London, John Murray, 1817.
8vo, pp. viii, [2], 132, [2], 133-296, [2]; without half-title; with frontispiece, folding map, and 10 plates (3 folding, all but one aquatints); a very few light marks; very good in contemporary tree-patterned calf, spine gilt in compartments with black morocco lettering-piece, marbled endpapers; upper joint split but holding, spine neatly repaired at head, some wear to corners; with armorial bookplate of ‘Cecil Lister Kaye of Denby Grange in the County of York’ and faint inscription at head of title.
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Narrative of a journey in Egypt and the country beyond the cataracts ... Second edition.
Second edition, illustrated with ten handsome plates absent from the first edition of 1816. ‘Legh travelled up the Nile in the winter of 1812/13 with the Rev. Charles Smelt, whose journal he uses in the narrative. They explored the country above Aswan, penetrating into Nubia, whose temples they were among the first to examine. Legh believed that only Norden had travelled in Nubia previous to himself. In 1817 and 1818 Legh travelled to Constantinople with [William] MacMichael and then joined Irby and Mangles in their successful attempt to reach Petra’ (Blackmer).
The atmospheric plates include ‘Interior of the excavated temple at Guerfeh, Hassan’, ‘An Egyptian woman carrying water from the Nile’, and ‘Arms of the Barabras’. The volume ends with an ‘account of some fragments of Thebaic manuscripts on leather, purchased by the author at the island of Elephantine’.
Abbey Travel, 267; Blackmer 999; Ibrahim-Hilmy I p. 364.