This is the rating and price for 2V Claude-Etienne Savary Letters On Egypt Containing A Parallel Between The Manners Of Its Ancient & Modern Inhabitants 1799 Antique Egyptology Fold-Out Maps Leather Binding, 1799

Description : Title: Letters on Egypt, Containing, a Parallel between the Manners of Its Ancient and Modern Inhabitants, Its Commerce, Agriculture, Government and Religion, With the Descent of Louis IX at Damietta, Extracted from Joinville, and Arabian Authors Author: Claude-Etienne Savary - Claude-Étienne Savary was an orientalist, pioneer of Egyptology and translator of the Qur'an. Among the titles he authored are Morale de Mahomet, ou Recueil des plus pures maximes du Coran (1784), Lettres sur l’Égypte, où l’on offre le parallèle des mœurs anciennes & modernes de ses habitans, où l’on décrit l’état, le commerce, l’agriculture, le gouvernement, l’ancienne religion du pays, & la descente de S. Louis à Damiette, tirée de Joinville & des Auteurs Arabes (1785-1786), and the posthumously published Grammaire de la langue arabe vulgaire et littérale (1813). Publisher: Printed for G. G. and J. Robinson City: London Year: 1799 Printing Information: Other - see description Binding Style: Hardcover Number of Volumes: 2 Full Set: Yes Width: 5.75 Height: 8.5 Book Details: Condition / Notes: This is a stated third edition of this English translation of Lettres sur l'Egypte. This antique set has been rebacked. Only one gilt-lettered spine label is present (with cracking). Both spine covers display chipping at the edges. The bindings are sound. The endpapers and blank pages at the front and rear of the volume have darkened edges. The title pages exhibit light foxing. The pages are largely clean and without markings. The first volume has three fold-out maps & one fold-out plan. The fold-out plan of the Great Pyramid is especially nice for the period of publication. A thirteen-page index appears at the rear of the second volume. For lots which include only books, our shipping charge applies to any address within the fifty United States. For lots which are not books, the stated shipping cost in this listing will apply only to addresses within the continental 48 states. Within those parameters, the shipping cost for this lot will be: $6.50
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