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Description : Belzoni (G.). Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs, and Excavations, in Egypt and Nubia, and of a journey to the coast of the Red Sea, in search of the ancient Berenice: and another to the oasis of Jupiter Ammon, 1st ed., 1820, uncol. litho. port. frontis., single eng. plt., some soiling and spotting, contemp. half calf, worn, rebacked, spine gilt, 4to, together with Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia, 1820, title soiled and torn across with minor loss, tape repair to verso, Plates list soiled, forty-four plts. on thirty-four leaves, inc. nineteen hand-col. lithos., twenty-one hand-col. engs. (two folding), and four uncol. engs., some soiling and fraying to edges, later half-cloth, with orig. paper label to upper cover, soiled, folio. Ex-lib. copies Blackmer 116 & 117 Giovanni Battista Belzoni, formerly a circus strong man, was first employed by Salt to move the colossal head of Memnon from Thebes to Cairo, and later removed many statues and sarcophagi and opened the second pyramid of Gizeh. To his narrative is appended Mrs Belzoni's Trifling Account, but Thomas Young's Appendix of 1821 is not present. This was the first English work of any importance to use lithography. See also lot 105 2
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